Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail
From: markspace <-@.>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject: Re: Assigning void
Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2012 12:42:23 -0700
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
Lines: 17
Message-ID: <k5cg71$6j7$1@dont-email.me>
References: <mn.655e7dca256cdfb1.70216@a.com> <k5c2q6$hio$1@dont-email.me> <k5c6vs$p9v$1@speranza.aioe.org> <k5cbcn$9dl$1@dont-email.me> <k5cd80$k8p$1@dont-email.me> <mn.6aec7dcaffbb07c0.70216@a.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Injection-Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2012 19:42:25 +0000 (UTC)
Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="61282af8d6595e8d991edb5ac03d6e00"; logging-data="6759"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org";	posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/BrkGiBfIkxVdPo9fAX42db6RiUyljzeg="
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:16.0) Gecko/20121010 Thunderbird/16.0.1
In-Reply-To: <mn.6aec7dcaffbb07c0.70216@a.com>
Cancel-Lock: sha1:zLzceiLba+b6npcLp1wssHyX53A=
Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:19293

On 10/13/2012 12:28 PM, Wojtek wrote:

> So questioning a design decision and trying to understand its rational
> 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.

All I can personally say, and I'm pretty sure all anyone here can say, 
is "Java is easy to read" is a goal, and allowing inline conditional is 
seen as detrimental to that goal.  Maybe.