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Subject: Re: Static type checking: hybrid mode in Groovy
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On 11/17/2011 10:25 AM, Gene Wirchenko wrote:
> written was something like:
>            if (cParsedWord=="$define")
> Instead, I had to write:
>            if (cParsedWord.equals("$define"))
> Without that method, it was something like:
>            if (cParsedWord.Value.toString().equals("$define"))


In all honesty, I prefer the last one.  At least I can see what is going 
on, and I don't think it is long at all.  There are plenty of good 
examples where Java is verbose.  This isn't one of them.

And overriding "equals" in this way is pernicious.


[[Snipped a lot of very nasty source code]]
>     void Set
>      (
>      String theString
>      )
>        {
>        this.Value.replace(0,this.Value.length(),theString);
>        }
>     }

>
>       Death by a thousand cuts.


If you're referring to whomever invented that source formatting style, 
then yeah, it's grody.  But that's not Java's fault.