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hyperpape
on Aug 19, 2014
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Java 9 features announced
"the path from idea to standardized feature" Guy Steele was asking for value types in 1998 (
http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/steele.pdf
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Padding
on Aug 19, 2014
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Yeah, but he was also asking for operator overloading.
hyperpape
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Well, I don't have a problem with that, but it's not really relevant. The community liked one proposal and disliked the other, but it still took almost two decades to handle the one it liked.
Padding
on Aug 20, 2014
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My point was that him simply liking/proposing it doesn't mean much.
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