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Scala 2.8 RC 1 next week

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odersky
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In today's Scala meeting we decided that we'd hold off another week for the
RC 1. The main reason is that @specialized annotations for functions and
tuples have not yet landed in trunk and we really do want to have them in
2.8. If there is another reason to hold off for longer, please let us know
by next Tuesday (March 30th).

Cheers

ijuma
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Re: Scala 2.8 RC 1 next week

On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 9:11 PM, martin odersky wrote:
> The main reason is that @specialized annotations for functions and
> tuples have not yet landed in trunk and we really do want to have them in
> 2.8.

Is the plan to only add the annotations or to also enable -Yspecialize
by default?

Best,
Ismael

odersky
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Re: Scala 2.8 RC 1 next week


On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 10:57 PM, Ismael Juma <mlists@juma.me.uk> wrote:
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 9:11 PM, martin odersky <martin.odersky@epfl.ch> wrote:
> The main reason is that @specialized annotations for functions and
> tuples have not yet landed in trunk and we really do want to have them in
> 2.8.

Is the plan to only add the annotations or to also enable -Yspecialize
by default?

The plan is to do both.

Cheers

 -- Martin


ijuma
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Re: Scala 2.8 RC 1 next week

On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 10:03 PM, martin odersky wrote:
> The plan is to do both.

Thanks, Martin. I think @specialized is pretty cool and I'm glad that
there's a push for it to be enabled in 2.8. I hope there will be a way
for users to disable it in case issues arise though (so that they can
test their applications with the RCs until these issues are fixed).

Best,
Ismael

odersky
Joined: 2008-07-29,
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Re: Scala 2.8 RC 1 next week


On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 8:10 AM, Ismael Juma <mlists@juma.me.uk> wrote:
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 10:03 PM, martin odersky <martin.odersky@epfl.ch> wrote:
> The plan is to do both.

Thanks, Martin. I think @specialized is pretty cool and I'm glad that
there's a push for it to be enabled in 2.8. I hope there will be a way
for users to disable it in case issues arise though (so that they can
test their applications with the RCs until these issues are fixed).

Yes, the plan is to have a -nospecialize option available.

Cheers

 -- Martin

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