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Awesome! Thanks. I don't know much about the path from idea to standardized feature with the JVM. Is there hope for it in Java 9 or is this much farther out i

Awesome! Thanks. I don't know much about the path from idea to standardized feature with the JVM. Is there hope for it in Java 9 or is this much farther out in the future? Probably first and more importantly, what is the chance for this even ever happening?

hyperpape 12y ago
"the path from idea to standardized feature" Guy Steele was asking for value types in 1998 (http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/steele.pdf http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/steele.pdf)
- Padding 12y ago
  Yeah, but he was also asking for operator overloading.
  - hyperpape 12y ago
    Well, I don't have a problem with that, but it's not really relevant. The community liked one proposal and disliked the other, but it still took almost two decades to handle the one it liked.
    - Padding 12y ago
      My point was that him simply liking/proposing it doesn't mean much.
karianna 12y ago
Likely delivery timeframe for value types in Java 10. Definitely not Java 9. Source - many conversations with Brian Goetz et al.