Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.glorb.com!npeer03.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!post01.iad.highwinds-media.com!newsfe07.iad.POSTED!00000000!not-for-mail From: Thufir Subject: Re: no more primitive data types in Java (JDK 10+). What do you think? Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer References: User-Agent: Pan/0.133 (House of Butterflies) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: Lines: 10 NNTP-Posting-Host: 184.65.42.92 X-Complaints-To: internet.abuse@sjrb.ca X-Trace: newsfe07.iad 1334956983 184.65.42.92 (Fri, 20 Apr 2012 21:23:03 UTC) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 21:23:03 UTC Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 14:21:56 -0700 X-Received-Bytes: 1059 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:13716 On Fri, 20 Apr 2012 07:04:40 -0300, Arved Sandstrom wrote: > But yes, we'd expect that you could do 5.someMethod(), for instance > methods that make sense. Which, in ruby, is an awesome feature. -Thufir