[antlr-interest] [antlr-dev] 1.5 vs 1.4

[Prashant Deva]

there is actually a whole article on ibm developerworks on using java 5
features with java 4 vm.

You might wanna take a look at that.

On 4/5/07, Terence Parr <parrt at cs.usfca.edu> wrote:
>
> Hi. It seems that the majority of people are fine with me moving to
> Java 1.5 so that I can use type arguments on my data structures
> internally to the ANTLR tool itself.  I think this is a good idea for
> maintenance reasons.  As I look at my data structures now, I
> constantly have to wonder what my maps have in them as data types.
> In fact, I usually have a comment that says "Map<String, State>". ;)
>
> For now, let's leave the run time as 1.4 and moved to 1.5 for the
> tool itself.  Ilia Kantor has graciously shown me the secret and
> undocumented -target jsr14 option to the Java 1.5 compiler.  I have
> added this to the build.xml file in the depot as well. Therefore, we
> should be able to build .class files compatible with 1.4 and yet
> still use the 1.5 generics.
>
> Thanks,
> Ter
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Prashant Deva
Creator, ANTLR Studio, Virtual Ant
Founder, Placid Systems, www.placidsystems.com
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