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Re: Why “new”?

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"Lawrence D'Oliveiro" <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> wrote in message 
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> 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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