AW: Generics and NetRexx

[Thomas.Schneider]

Hello Patrick,

   as you might know I did develop a Rexx to NetRexx(and Java) translator
(namely Rexx2Nrx,
see www.Rexx2Nrx.com for recent updates)

   Could you point me to the doc's available for Java 'generics', please ?
thanks in advance, Tom..
 

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Patric Bechtel [SMTP:[hidden email]]
> Gesendet am: Dienstag, 5. November 2002 18:38
> An: Mike Cowlishaw
> Cc: [hidden email]
> Betreff: Re: Generics and NetRexx
>
> Hello Mike,
>
> phew... holding my breath is not one of my strengths, I think... :-)
>
> As I'm told by a Sun employee working on the 1.4.2 release, they do
> not expect it before Jan '03, so there's a bit time...
> There's much more about generics than just "no casts" and such, it's
> a deep change in programmers, and such also in compiler builders,
> thinking. So starting to think about it cannot hurt...
>
> Hm, but the DECIMAL project seemed sort of final, didn't it? It will
> make it into next JDK release (Tiger, Hopper?), or am I misinformed
> or too optimistic? It will be a big step forward for (pure) Java,
> though doing it NOW in NetRexx is a nice alternative. How much of
> the specification is reality in NetRexx? Are the NetRexx decimal
> routines an early version of the current specs?
>
> Patric
>
>
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[Patric Bechtel]

On Tue, 5 Nov 2002 20:07:44 +0100, [hidden email] wrote:

Hi Thomas,

take your eyes here:

http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/earlyAccess/adding_generics/

have fun...

Patric

>Hello Patrick,
>
>   as you might know I did develop a Rexx to NetRexx(and Java) translator
>(namely Rexx2Nrx,
>see www.Rexx2Nrx.com for recent updates)
>
>   Could you point me to the doc's available for Java 'generics', please ?
>thanks in advance, Tom..
>
>
>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>> Von: Patric Bechtel [SMTP:[hidden email]]
>> Gesendet am: Dienstag, 5. November 2002 18:38
>> An: Mike Cowlishaw
>> Cc: [hidden email]
>> Betreff: Re: Generics and NetRexx
>>
>> Hello Mike,
>>
>> phew... holding my breath is not one of my strengths, I think... :-)
>>
>> As I'm told by a Sun employee working on the 1.4.2 release, they do
>> not expect it before Jan '03, so there's a bit time...
>> There's much more about generics than just "no casts" and such, it's
>> a deep change in programmers, and such also in compiler builders,
>> thinking. So starting to think about it cannot hurt...
>>
>> Hm, but the DECIMAL project seemed sort of final, didn't it? It will
>> make it into next JDK release (Tiger, Hopper?), or am I misinformed
>> or too optimistic? It will be a big step forward for (pure) Java,
>> though doing it NOW in NetRexx is a nice alternative. How much of
>> the specification is reality in NetRexx? Are the NetRexx decimal
>> routines an early version of the current specs?
>>
>> Patric
>>
>>
>>
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