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| From | "Mike Schilling" <mscottschilling@hotmail.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.java.programmer |
| Subject | Re: Why “new”? |
| Date | 2011-02-04 17:33 -0800 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <iii9dq$3pr$1@news.eternal-september.org> (permalink) |
| References | <iii71v$3ud$1@lust.ihug.co.nz> <4d4ca255$0$23765$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <iii8s4$4tt$1@lust.ihug.co.nz> |
"Lawrence D'Oliveiro" <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> wrote in message news:iii8s4$4tt$1@lust.ihug.co.nz... > In message <4d4ca255$0$23765$14726298@news.sunsite.dk>, Arne Vajhøj wrote: > >> Java is very inspired from C++ syntax wise. >> >> When the rest of the language is C++ like it would >> have confused people not to use C++ syntax for >> object creation as well. >> >> Consistent style. > > In that case, they should have kept the word “virtual” as well. > >> And BTW the use of new is not just a C++ thing - other >> language use a new keyword (with different syntax) for >> object creation: Pascal, VB, Perl. >> >>> I’m surprised Java never added a shorter form, say >>> >>> classname varname(args); >>> >>> which is of course straight out of C++. >> >> But with a different semantic than Java, so it >> would really be confusing. > > You already have that confusion, when every method declaration in Java is > effectively virtual, unlike C++. That's not true, you know.
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