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"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://w

"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.