Re: Re: Re: Re: generics in ASM

OK, I'll bite.

Why would anyone care about pre-1.5 compatibility these days?

Java 5 is EOL - it's dead, so why does it make sense to ship anything with 
support for older versions of Java than 5?

Thanks,

Ben
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Rémi Forax <[email protected]> 
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In my opinion, ASM can be generified if all generics related attributes
are stripped when created asm.jar.
The main reason to avoid generics is to keep asm.jar as small as possible.

So asm-debug.jar will be 1.5 compatible and asm.jar will be 1.1 
compatible.

Rémi

Le 21/07/2010 17:01, Joshua Warner a écrit : 
Eugene,

If you do decide to generify ASM, I might be interested in contributing to 
the conversion process - it would be a good way to learn a little more 
about the internals of ASM.

Regards,
Joshua

On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 8:38 AM, Eugene Kuleshov <[email protected]> 
wrote:
Joshua,

 ASM never been generified. The main reason is to maintain
compatibility with Java 1.1.
 Perhaps it is now time to review that. Eg. one could use
retrotranslator or retroweaver tools to run ASM on old JVMs.

 regards,
 Eugene


On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 5:04 PM, Joshua Warner <[email protected]> 
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> While reading through the documentation
> (http://download.forge.objectweb.org/asm/asm-guide.pdf), I noticed a
> discrepancy.  In that document, it seems to indicate that the ListS in
> ClassNode are generic, e.g List<MethodNode> (see pages 83-84).  When 
looking
> both the source code (SVN trunk) and the api documentation, I see that 
this
> is not the case.
>
> Were these fields generic at the time the documentation was written?  If 
so,
> why were they changed back?  If not, why not use generics?
>
> Regards,
> Joshua


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