April 14, 2011
8:13 a.m.
Dave, On 13 April 2011 23:06, Dave Mason <dmason@mason-rose.ca> wrote:
From: Â Â Â Â http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=292
"We will also investigate support for hotswapping, the capability to modify the structure of classes at run time."
So, yes, they planned to "investigate" a version of become:
The DaVinci Machine
    http://openjdk.java.net/projects/mlvm/
has an implementation:
    http://wiki.jvmlangsummit.com/images/4/41/DaVinciMachineTalk.pdf
I'm puzzled; where is #become: mentioned as being implemented in that talk? It's mostly about INVOKEDYNAMIC, which is an entirely different thing. (They mention HotSwap on one slide, but that, as I wrote, has been around since 1.4, and is also not really #become:.) Best, Michael