[antlr-interest] Re: java 1.4 as min value?

[John D. Mitchell]

>>>>> "lgcraymer" == lgcraymer  <lgc at mail1.jpl.nasa.gov> writes:
[...]

> It looks like anyone depending on pre-1.4 has already got maintainability
> problems and they can only get worse.

There's an archive page of the old Sun JRE's.  It's kind of hard to find
but it's out there.

> 1.4 is a good baseline.

I concur.

> 1.5 still scares me because of the addition of generics, but I have yet
> to investigate whether Sun avoided the pitfalls that C++ ran into with
> standardizing templates before standard practice had emerged.

No but they did something just as bad.  Generics in Java are done via type
erasure at compile time.  Sigh.

Take care,
	John


 
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