primitive type alias expunging

On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 10:28 PM, Paul Phillips wrote:
> I have managed to removed the primitive type aliases from Predef
> (deprecated since 2.6.0 at least) and have everything working again.
> Not a task I'd recommend for the thrills.
>
> Question before I commit anything.  Spec 8.2 says:
>
> A type variable pattern is a simple identifier which starts with a lower
> case letter. However, the predefined primitive type aliases unit,
> boolean, byte, short, char, int, long, float, and double are not
> classified as type variable patterns.
>
> ...That language should probably be changed one way or another because
> it refers to those aliases as if they are a supported part of the
> language rather than the long deprecated historical artifacts they are.
> But the question is, should they continue to be reserved words in a
> pattern matching context? I don't see any good reason they should, and
> that'd be the easiest spec change ("delete sentence") but this will
> represents both a spec and behavioral change so I figured it was outside
> the scope of the deprecation janitor.
>
No, all of that can go. Rejoice! -- Martin