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| Newsgroups | comp.lang.java.programmer |
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| Date | 2012-10-13 12:54 -0700 |
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| Message-ID | <ac913d18-3fef-4a5e-962b-cca10713043e@googlegroups.com> (permalink) |
| Subject | Re: Assigning void |
| From | Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> |
markspace wrote: > Wojtek wrote: >> So questioning a design decision and trying to understand its rational[e] >> is trolling? Really? > > Yup, because there's no way anyone on this list could possibly answer > that question. You might try asking some of the language conferences or > at JavaOne. They might be able to tell you, or at least give you a > rational[e]. > > All I can personally say, and I'm pretty sure all anyone here can say, Nope. I said something different, for example. > is "Java is easy to read" is a goal, and allowing inline conditional is > seen as detrimental to that goal. Maybe. I'm afraid I disagree with markspace here. First of all, asking unanswerable questions is not /per se/ trolling. Second, there is much one can say about the rationale for Java. The Founding Coders have written a lot on the ideas behind Java, so we aren't reasoning in a vacuum. Furthermore, the rationale is deduceable from the JLS. Or a rationale is, in any event. It is straightforward to determine why '?:' cannot be a statement from the cited JLS references already. It is clearly part of the rationale of Java that not everything that can be done should be. Java prohibits standalone expressions as statements, unlike C. It's such a fundamental and basic and foundational difference between the languages that I rarely hear anyone question it. "So Java prohibits standalone expressions as statements. Big deal." Fine. Clearly it's part of the rationale of Java that a statement, to be a statement and not just an expression, must effect something. What does 'x? 4 : 5' effect? '?:' is placed in the operators table. Ergo, the rationale not to allow standalone ternary is the rationale not to allow standalone operators generally. Q.E.D. -- Lew
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Assigning void Wojtek <nowhere@a.com> - 2012-10-12 22:54 -0700
Re: Assigning void Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-10-12 23:27 -0700
Re: Assigning void Wojtek <nowhere@a.com> - 2012-10-13 12:35 -0700
Re: Assigning void Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2012-10-13 09:26 -0400
Re: Assigning void Donkey Hottie <donkey@fredriksson.dy.fi> - 2012-10-13 17:06 +0300
Re: Assigning void Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2012-10-13 10:34 -0400
Re: Assigning void Wanja Gayk <brixomatic@yahoo.com> - 2012-10-13 22:33 +0200
Re: Assigning void Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2012-10-13 17:34 -0400
Re: Assigning void Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2012-10-13 17:45 -0400
Re: Assigning void Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2012-10-13 21:35 -0400
Re: Assigning void Wanja Gayk <brixomatic@yahoo.com> - 2012-10-16 00:16 +0200
Re: Assigning void Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2012-10-13 11:59 -0400
Re: Assigning void glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2012-10-13 17:05 +0000
Re: Assigning void Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2012-10-13 14:26 -0400
Re: Assigning void markspace <-@.> - 2012-10-13 11:51 -0700
Re: Assigning void Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2012-10-13 15:08 -0400
Re: Assigning void Wojtek <nowhere@a.com> - 2012-10-13 12:28 -0700
Re: Assigning void markspace <-@.> - 2012-10-13 12:42 -0700
Re: Assigning void Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-10-13 12:54 -0700
OT - Trolling Wojtek <nowhere@a.com> - 2012-10-13 14:16 -0700
Re: OT - Trolling Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2012-10-13 18:09 -0400
Re: OT - Trolling Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-10-14 18:47 -0700
Re: Assigning void Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2012-10-13 20:28 +0000
Re: Assigning void Wojtek <nowhere@a.com> - 2012-10-13 13:31 -0700
Re: Assigning void Joerg Meier <joergmmeier@arcor.de> - 2012-10-20 18:00 +0200
Re: Assigning void Peter Duniho <NpOeStPeAdM@NnOwSlPiAnMk.com> - 2012-10-20 09:56 -0700
Re: Assigning void "Peter J. Holzer" <hjp-usenet2@hjp.at> - 2012-10-21 13:24 +0200
Re: Assigning void Peter Duniho <NpOeStPeAdM@NnOwSlPiAnMk.com> - 2012-10-21 10:23 -0700
Re: Assigning void "Peter J. Holzer" <hjp-usenet2@hjp.at> - 2012-10-22 00:13 +0200
Re: Assigning void Peter Duniho <NpOeStPeAdM@NnOwSlPiAnMk.com> - 2012-10-21 16:25 -0700
Re: Assigning void "Peter J. Holzer" <hjp-usenet2@hjp.at> - 2012-10-22 08:43 +0200
Re: Assigning void "Peter J. Holzer" <hjp-usenet2@hjp.at> - 2012-10-22 10:18 +0200
Re: Assigning void Peter Duniho <NpOeStPeAdM@NnOwSlPiAnMk.com> - 2012-10-22 08:14 -0700
Re: Assigning void glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2012-10-21 19:45 +0000
Re: Assigning void "Peter J. Holzer" <hjp-usenet2@hjp.at> - 2012-10-22 00:14 +0200
Re: Assigning void Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-10-13 12:44 -0700
Re: Assigning void Jukka Lahtinen <jtfjdehf@hotmail.com.invalid> - 2012-10-15 14:38 +0300
Re: Assigning void Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-10-15 09:11 -0700
Re: Assigning void Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2012-10-13 15:03 -0400
Re: Assigning void glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2012-10-13 20:21 +0000
Re: Assigning void Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-10-13 12:38 -0700
Re: Assigning void markspace <-@.> - 2012-10-13 12:49 -0700
Re: Assigning void Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-10-13 13:03 -0700
Re: Assigning void Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2012-10-14 14:09 +0200
Re: Assigning void Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-10-14 11:31 -0700
Re: Assigning void Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2012-10-13 19:55 -0400
Re: Assigning void Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2012-10-13 20:25 -0400
Re: Assigning void Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2012-10-13 21:01 -0400
Re: Assigning void Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-10-14 18:42 -0700
Re: Assigning void Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-10-14 00:51 -0700
Re: Assigning void Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2012-10-14 10:40 -0400
Re: Assigning void Sven Köhler <remove-sven.koehler@gmail.com> - 2012-10-21 01:24 +0200
Re: Assigning void Wojtek <nowhere@a.com> - 2012-10-21 14:52 -0700
Re: Assigning void Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2012-10-21 20:13 -0400
Re: Assigning void Wojtek <nowhere@a.com> - 2012-10-21 20:20 -0700
Re: Assigning void Sven Köhler <remove-sven.koehler@gmail.com> - 2012-10-22 11:12 +0200
Re: Assigning void Wanja Gayk <brixomatic@yahoo.com> - 2012-10-24 22:03 +0200
Re: Assigning void Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2012-10-24 17:47 -0400
Re: Assigning void Wanja Gayk <brixomatic@yahoo.com> - 2012-10-25 01:02 +0200
Re: Assigning void Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2012-10-24 20:21 -0400
Re: Assigning void Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2012-10-25 20:04 +0000
(OT) Re: Assigning void Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2012-10-25 16:31 -0400
Re: (OT) Re: Assigning void Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2012-10-25 20:44 +0000
Re: Assigning void Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom2@eastlink.ca> - 2012-10-25 07:25 -0300
Re: Assigning void Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-10-25 11:12 -0700
Re: Assigning void Sven Köhler <remove-sven.koehler@gmail.com> - 2012-10-22 11:01 +0200
Re: Assigning void Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte-dot-net.invalid> - 2012-10-23 00:38 +0200
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