[chrisseaton]

I don’t think you can call monkey patching inelegant or a hack. Monkey patching is the absence of extra rules - not allowing a method to be defined more than once - and the prescence of consistency - all methods can be redefined.

It’s certainly problematic when used! But the feature itself is elegant and the opposite of a hack. Disallowing monkey patching requires extra conditions and rules, not less.

[rajangdavis]

Not to sidetrack the conversation, but will you be announcing anything regarding the GraalVM? It seems like there is something announced every year, would love to hear the progress from last year

[chrisseaton]

Yeah I’ll try to post something to http://mail.openjdk.java.net/mailman/listinfo/graal-dev