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Re: diamond operator

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From	David Lamb <dalamb@cs.queensu.ca>
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Subject	Re: diamond operator
Date	Wed, 04 Apr 2012 08:23:26 -0400
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On 04/04/2012 7:12 AM, Silvio Bierman wrote:
> On 04/04/2012 03:54 AM, Roedy Green wrote:
>> I was looking over the table of contents of a book about new features
>> in Java 7 and came across a reference to the "diamond operator".
> With some exaggeration one might call it Java's type inferencing...

Well, maybe, but from the little I recall of my programming language 
design classes, "real" type inferencing is a lot more powerful, so I 
think you ought to have said "much exaggeration."

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diamond operator Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-04-03 18:54 -0700
  Re: diamond operator Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-04-03 22:06 -0400
  Re: diamond operator Silvio Bierman <silvio@moc.com> - 2012-04-04 13:12 +0200
    Re: diamond operator David Lamb <dalamb@cs.queensu.ca> - 2012-04-04 08:23 -0400
      Re: diamond operator Silvio Bierman <silvio@moc.com> - 2012-04-04 15:40 +0200
      Re: diamond operator Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-04-04 19:41 -0400
        Re: diamond operator David Lamb <dalamb@cs.queensu.ca> - 2012-04-05 08:03 -0400
  Re: diamond operator Jim Janney <jjanney@shell.xmission.com> - 2012-04-04 10:23 -0600
    Re: diamond operator Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-04-04 18:15 -0700
      Re: diamond operator David Lamb <dalamb@cs.queensu.ca> - 2012-04-05 15:44 -0400
        Re: diamond operator Jim Janney <jjanney@shell.xmission.com> - 2012-04-05 14:54 -0600
    Re: diamond operator Silvio Bierman <silvio@moc.com> - 2012-04-06 12:06 +0200
      Re: diamond operator Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-04-06 10:53 -0700
        Re: diamond operator Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2012-04-06 21:35 -0500
          Re: diamond operator Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-05-05 20:07 -0400
      Re: diamond operator Jim Janney <jjanney@shell.xmission.com> - 2012-04-06 19:56 -0600
        Re: diamond operator Jim Janney <jjanney@shell.xmission.com> - 2012-04-06 20:02 -0600
  Re: diamond operator Arivald <NOSPAMarivald@interia.pl> - 2012-04-05 10:11 +0200
    Re: diamond operator Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-04-05 11:34 -0700
      Re: diamond operator Arivald <NOSPAMarivald@interia.pl> - 2012-04-05 22:02 +0200
        Re: diamond operator ObeseeExpen <ObeseeExpen.5ibto0@no-mx.forums.yourdomain.com.au> - 2012-09-03 12:39 -0400
      Re: diamond operator Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2012-04-05 18:18 -0500
      Re: diamond operator Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-04-05 19:38 -0400
      Re: diamond operator Silvio Bierman <silvio@moc.com> - 2012-04-06 17:07 +0200
        Re: diamond operator Thufir <hawat.thufir@gmail.com> - 2012-04-06 08:51 -0700
          Re: diamond operator Silvio Bierman <silvio@moc.com> - 2012-04-08 15:12 +0200
    Re: diamond operator Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-04-05 19:41 -0400

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