It would be nice to have Scala Source to Java Source compilation, to
allow Scala in compilers like GWT.
- Andrés
2008/8/19 martin odersky <
martin.odersky@...>:
> Thanks to Seth and Ilya for their careful bug reporting! I believe
> there are still some minor glitches, and a major one. I expect that
> some of the remaining minor glitches can be fixed, and hope the others
> will have workarounds.
>
> There's one major problem left, at the moment. I don't think we can
> guarantee yet that
> when you do
>
> scalac *.scala *.java
> javac *.java
>
> that all Scala classfiles will work correctly. The problem is that the
> mapping Java->Scala seems to be (lmostly) good enough for the type
> checker, but not necessarily good enough for the Java code generator.
> So, to be safe, you should follow the sequence above by another Scala
> compilation:
>
> scalac *.scala
>
> That's just to be safe. Please continue to send tickets for cases
> where the two-step sequence
> (scalac/javac) is not sufficient and we will try to fix them ASAP.
>
> Cheers
>
> -- Martin
>
