From: "Gregory Morrisett" <jgm@cs.cornell.edu>
To: "Ryan R Newton" <newton@MIT.EDU>, <caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr>
Subject: RE: [Caml-list] Does Java 1.5 change its potential as a target?
Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 15:14:55 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <FB4F95390166B14C90E4DD950D69D6E246F3CE@EXCHVS2.cs.cornell.edu> (raw)
>If the 1.5 release of the JVM will support generics and
>discriminated unions, is there anything keeping it from being
>on par with the .NET CLR (w/ ILX extensions) for ML
>implementation? That is, can the F# project be repeated for
>Java after this point?
My understanding is that the JVM isn't changing, just Java.
So, for instance, generics are encoded by doing up-casts to
Object and downcasts, etc. So, we won't be any better off
trying to do F# on the JVM than we are today.
-Greg
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