John Rose

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Value Types for Java – A sketch of proposed enhancements

2014121 points98 commentscited by 13Programming Languages details

This is a sketch of proposed enhancements to the Java Virtual Machine instruction set, and secondarily to the Java Language, to support small immutable, identityless value types . (They may also be considered as identityless aggregates, user-defined primitives, immutable records, or restricted classes.) This is an…

Value Type Hygiene

2018103 points57 comments Programming Languages details

Briefly put, types in L-world are ambiguous, leading to unhygienic mixtures of value operations with reference operations, and uncontrolled pollution from null s infecting value code.