Re: Status of project and adding 1.5 generics

I'm referring to the syntactic sugar you mentioned when I ask about
adding generics.

Also, it appears there hasn't been a release in a while.  What's the
status of the project?



Harlan Sexton writes:
 > Could you explain what you mean by "adding generics"? Java 1.5 generic
 > types are just syntactic sugar -
 > for some reason they were unwilling to actually change the VM to
 > extend the type system. (This was a mistake,
 > but at the time I was maintaining the Java VM in the Oracle RDBMS and
 > was very busy with other things, so
 > I was glad not to have to do anything for this change.)
 > 
 > On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 11:28 AM, Paul Landes <[email protected]> wrote:
 > > I'm resending part of this message as I'm now on the devel list and
 > > might have gotten bounded.  Sorry for the extra noise here, folks.
 > > I'm not having great luck with the mailing lists.
 > >
 > > --
 > >
 > > Pat et al,
 > >
 > > Are there any plans of adding Java 1.5 generics to beanshell any time
 > > soon?
 > >
 > > Also, it appears there hasn't been a release in a while.  What's the
 > > status of the project?
 > >
 > > Thanks.
 > >
 > >
 > > --
 > > Paul Landes
 > > [email protected]
 > >
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