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From: Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Assigning void
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On 10/21/2012 5:52 PM, Wojtek wrote:
> Sven Köhler wrote :
>> Am 13.10.2012 07:54, schrieb Wojtek:
>>> but I want to do:
>>>
>>> (server.getConnectionType() == ConnectionType.ACTIVE) ?
>>> ftp.enterLocalActiveMode() : ftp.enterLocalPassiveMode();
>>
>> That's not correct Java syntax. Live with it.
>
> So you just posted your first message to this group and this is how you
> want to represent yourself?
>
> Of course it is not valid syntax, I was just trying to start a
> discussion about its possible merits.

     Merits: "If you want Lisp, you know where to find it."

     Seriously, the fact that C permits the ?: operator with void
operands is an historical accident, a holdover from before the days
when `void' came to C.  Java lacks C's historical baggage, so there's
little reason to carry it.  (Java slavishly perpetuates a few of C's
other infelicities, but this one isn't among them.)

-- 
Eric Sosman
esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid