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Re:JDK 9 modules voted down by EC by threeseed on Tuesday May 09, 2017 @06:28PM (#14304365)
If the Reflection and SQL libraries are opt in then why doesn't Clojure just mandate that if you want their software to run you need to enable these modules ?

It's pretty strange that just because Clojure uses SQL's Timestamp (why ?) that it should be a default.

Re:JDK 9 modules voted down by EC by lvh on Tuesday May 09, 2017 @07:55PM (#14304872)
That would necessarily move it off the bootclassloader, for one.

Clojure uses it because it's the only sane time instance in the stdlib. It is not an uncommon class to use for that reason; the underlying reason is that j.u.Date sucks.