Yes On Thursday, March 24, 2016, Marcelo Vanzin <van...@cloudera.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 1:04 AM, Reynold Xin <r...@databricks.com > <javascript:;>> wrote: > > I actually talked quite a bit today with an engineer on the scala > compiler > > team tonight and the scala 2.10 + java 8 combo should be ok. The latest > > Scala 2.10 release should have all the important fixes that are needed > for > > Java 8. > > So, do you actually get the benefits you're looking for without > compiling explicitly to the 1.8 jvm? Because: > > $ scala -version > Scala code runner version 2.10.6 -- Copyright 2002-2013, LAMP/EPFL > $ scalac -target jvm-1.8 > scalac error: Usage: -target:<target> > where <target> choices are jvm-1.5, jvm-1.5-fjbg, jvm-1.5-asm, > jvm-1.6, jvm-1.7, msil (default: jvm-1.6) > > So even if you use jdk 8 to compile with scala 2.10, you can't target > jvm 1.8 as far as I can tell. > > -- > Marcelo >
