Re: Java language and API improvements

2015-12-06 Thread Martijn Verburg
Hi Alberto, Further to this, all of these have been proposed in one form or another previously during Project Coin during Java 7's development. I suggest you have a look at the old coin-dev archives (http://mail.openjdk.java.net/ pipermail/coin-dev/) to see why they weren't taken on board (or wer

Re: Java language and API improvements

2015-12-04 Thread Jonathan Yu
Hi Alberto, It might be easier to discuss these proposals by separating them into individual emails, to help keep things focussed. I'm not even sure if this is the right list for Java language discussions. I'm not an expert but just sharing some quick thoughts... On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 10:22 AM

Java language and API improvements

2015-12-04 Thread Alberto Otero Rodríguez
Hi, I'm Alberto, a Java EE developer from Spain. I would like to suggest several improvements to the Java language and API. These are my suggestions: *1) Variable declaration block* I don't know why, but you can declare variables in a for declaration, but not in an if declaration. I would ad