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by evgeniysharapov 3013 days ago
Not always and not quite. Here's an example of some type-foo with generics that works on Java 7 and not on Java 8

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34659055/java-8-incompat...
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hyperpape 3013 days ago
If I read that correctly, the “breakage” is a bug fix, as that particular Java 7 compiler isn’t behaving according to the spec. You can argue that breaks backwards compatibility, but in the smallest, most innocuous way possible.
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kelnos 3013 days ago
My understanding after reading the answer to that SO question is that the behavior in 7 was a bug. New releases of javac aren't required to be bug-compatible with previous releases.
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