[Java Spec Report] Re: JSR 201 autobox comments

> > http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=201
> > http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=14
> > http://java.sun.com/developer/earlyAccess/adding_generics/
> ...
> wrapper ... compile-time constants ...

Oi.

Autoboxing without constant null and complete "identity" can't let
people forget about the difference between primitive and reference types.

What of the example:

final static Integer i = 5;
final static Integer j = 5;
final static Integer n = null;
final static Integer p = 0x8001;
final static Integer q = 0x8001;
final static Boolean bo1 = (n instanceof Object);
final static Boolean bo2 = false;

Do we agree the draft we have promises us:

        i == j
        (p == q) || (p != q)
        (bo1 == bo2)

?

Are we then proposing to make i j p q bo2 constant, but n and bo1 not?

Pat LaVarre

P.S. The code above as yet is untested
because in writing it I discover somehow I haven't yet completed
such group/java-spec-report/ threads as
"Subject: jsr 14 proto found" and 
"Subject: javac -source 1.5 @ mac".



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