[armedbear-devel] Using named classes for primitives

[Tobias C. Rittweiler]

Mark Evenson writes:

> It would be better to have a tool that can grok the Abstract Syntax Tree 
> for Java, transforming that.  [Jackpot][1] should be the kind of tool 
> that would help with this sort of thing, 

By the way, Java6 contains an API to the Java AST:

  http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/javax/tools/JavaCompiler.html

At the moment, that's read-only access, but I wouldn't be surprised if
that restriction will be lifted at some point in future. And we all know
what this will mean: Java gets macros in disguise. :-)

Combined with invokedynamic, Java6 becomes an even more so interesting
platform. Perhaps interesting enough to throw out backwards
compatibility...

  -T.