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Danny is back from JavaPolis and posts a summary of interest to Rubyists. It is informative and entertaining, so definitely go read it. The following items caught my eye:
"Graham Hamilton, Sun VP, announced in his keynote on Thursday that Java 7 may support ?new JVM bytecodes for dynamic languages like Ruby?. This would make it possible for Ruby code to be compiled into JVM bytecode"
"code by exception is not something exclusive to Ruby on Rails, but I did think it?s nice to see it?s becoming quite a trend in the Java world also"
"Someone had written a wishlist for Java?s future, including dynamic typing and method parameters. Method parameters was actually mentioned by Graham Hamilton as a possible addition to Dolphin (Java 7), so there is hope. We?ll only have to wait until 2008"