Joseph D. Darcy's Sun Weblog

Friday March 20, 2009

Project Coin: Week 3 Update

Project Coin's third week was another week of lively traffic on the mailing list. New proposals were sent in:

• Extended arrays declaration and access syntax with use of enumerated types, Alexey Kuznetsov

• Embedded Expressions for String Statements, Stefan Schulz

• Access to Generic Type Parameters at Compile-Time, David Walend

• Small property support, Ruslan Lazukov

existing proposals were revised:

• Static Methods in Interfaces (v1.1) , Reinier Zwitserloot and Roel Spilker

• Enhanced String literal for Java: version 1.3 with implementation, Alexey Kuznetsov

and discussion continued on ARM and other proposals. The scoping and utility of a few pre-proposals was discussed on the list too.

Ten days remain to get language change proposals in! (Purely libraries changes will be handled by other JDK 7 processes.)