Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.org!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder1.enfer-du-nord.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Robert Klemme Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Java 7 feature Q. Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 23:46:21 +0200 Lines: 38 Message-ID: <9b06ppFuh9U1@mid.individual.net> References: <161b05bb-90e5-4a66-ac08-d2a79a3aaaaa@d25g2000yqh.googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net Go1JWDs7wsmG/tlt3Wcl4wUd4kC/UQBklkz019iRo+99y+wJY= Cancel-Lock: sha1:AeLigbUhuF6rbPpxtvdO6ssU3fM= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; WOW64; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110624 Thunderbird/5.0 In-Reply-To: Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:7145 On 16.08.2011 22:39, Tom Anderson wrote: > On Tue, 16 Aug 2011, Dangling Pointer wrote: > >> On Aug 13, 12:05 am, Lew wrote: >>> "00101010" wrote: >>> >>>> Did they, like promised, add the waka waka shortcut for the instance >>>> creation operator? >>> >>> Of which "they" do you speak? There has never been a promise for >>> Java to have a "waka waka" shortcut, whatever the heck that is, and >>> Java doesn't have an instance creation operator. >>> >>> Could you please clarify your question? >> >> Haven't you ever heard of waka waka bang splat tick tick hash? >> >> <> !*''# >> ^"`$$- >> !*=@$_ >> %*<> ~#4 >> &[]../ >> |{,,SYSTEM HALTED > > Since when did this become a Perl newsgroup? Maybe JPerl is around the corner... Seriously, there seems to be a tendency in the industry to create more and more languages which can be executed on the JVM (see also JSR 292 which is part of Java 7). Cheers robert -- remember.guy do |as, often| as.you_can - without end http://blog.rubybestpractices.com/