Re: [Java Spec Report] Re: JSR 201 autobox comments

Pat LaVarre wrote:
> 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?

No.  None of them are constant.  Besides the fact that the initializing 
expression for bo1 is nonconstant, none of these variables are of a primitive 
type or String.


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