JDK-6860965 : Project Coin: binary literals
  • Type: Enhancement
  • Component: tools
  • Sub-Component: javac
  • Affected Version: 7
  • Priority: P3
  • Status: Closed
  • Resolution: Fixed
  • OS: generic
  • CPU: generic
  • Submitted: 2009-07-15
  • Updated: 2017-05-16
  • Resolved: 2012-01-13
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JDK 7
7 b73Fixed
Related Reports
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JDK-7011920 - Project Coin: Sync with JSR 334 EDR
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JDK-4495744 - Add binary designator for specifying integer values
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JDK-5025288 - Language support for literal numbers in binary and other bases
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JDK-6891079 - Compiler allows invalid binary literals 0b and oBL
Description
One of the submissions to Project Coin was to add binary integer literals to the platform:

http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/coin-dev/2009-March/000929.html

In short, with a prefix of "0b" literals could be written in binary such as 0b1111 instead of 0xF.
Comments
EVALUATION A fine idea.
15-07-2009