Re: [cp-patches] [generics] Patch: FYI: StringBuilder

[Tom Tromey]

>>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew John Hughes <address@hidden> writes:

>> It does implement Appendable, which is also new in 1.5.

Andrew> I didn't spot the interface, but as long as it still doesn't
Andrew> have any 1.5 compile features, we should be okay to go (at a
Andrew> guess, I would think it is one of the new 'marker'-style
Andrew> interfaces

It isn't a marker interface, but it is pretty small and easy to
document.  It only has two methods.

I suspect Mark may want to weigh in on whether this should be merged
at all.  My impression was there are some folks who would prefer not
to see any 1.5 stuff on the trunk for the time being.  (I don't really
care either way, as long as it eventually gets done...)

Andrew> I take it generics is just a branch from the standard
Andrew> Classpath repository?  With gcjx being one of the possible
Andrew> compilers for it?

Yeah, there is a branch named "generics-branch" on which all the 1.5
work is done.

At the moment the code on the branch has never been compiled.  It
probably has syntax errors and the like.  gcjx is still a work in
progress and, while it can handle the 1.4 language pretty well, the
larger 1.5 additions are still incomplete.

The non-compilability of the branch shouldn't hinder documentation
efforts though :-)

Tom