Re: [cp-patches] Implementing Thread.sleep() via Thread.wait()

[Archie Cobbs]

Jeroen Frijters wrote:
> > Sure if you think that is a good idea. But are you sure we want to
> > encourage arbitrary behavior? I believe we should try to
> > encourage/document consistent and nonsurprizing behavior.
>
> It's funny, but I'm using the exact same arguments (i.e. consistent and
> nonsurprizing behavior) to defend my position ;-) It's just that I value
> compatibility with Sun higher than adhering to the spec.

In any case, the "spec" is hardly gospel. I guarantee you that if Sun fixes 
this bug, they will fix it by "fixing" the spec, rather than changing the 
behavior.

By the way there's a JDK bug number assigned for this now:

  http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6213203

-Archie

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