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JDK 1.7 new features

From	Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject	JDK 1.7 new features
Date	2011-07-29 09:28 -0700
Organization	Canadian Mind Products
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I was pleased to see some features is JDK 1.7 that I had been asking
for since JDK 1.1.  I'm surprised at how little there is new in 1.7. I
guess the recession made Oracle really pull in their horns. It is
mostly just a little syntatic sugar in the compiler.

binary literals.
underscores in literals to make them easier to proofread
string case labels
catch can handle multiple Exceptions.

I would think the biggest priority for 1.8 would be unifying arrays
and generics. They should be compatible, even if it means giving up
type erasure.
-- 
Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products
http://mindprod.com
Most of computer code is for telling the computer
what do if some very particular thing goes wrong.

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JDK 1.7 new features Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-07-29 09:28 -0700
  Re: JDK 1.7 new features Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-07-30 13:47 -0700
    Re: JDK 1.7 new features Stanimir Stamenkov <s7an10@netscape.net> - 2011-07-30 23:57 +0300
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