Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Roedy Green Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Java 7 feature Q. Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2011 14:00:15 -0700 Organization: Canadian Mind Products Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Roedy Green NNTP-Posting-Host: RCd/Ul4tyxGUBII8WGwa5g.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 6.00/32.1186 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:7089 On Fri, 12 Aug 2011 22:03:19 -0400, 00101010 wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said : >Did they, like promised, add the waka waka shortcut for the instance >creation operator? I googled unsuccessfully. Waka Waka has meanings in the context of African pop music and Pac Man games, but nothing I could find on Java. Perhaps you mean something like my suggested Bali syntactic sugar: http://mindprod.com/jgloss/bali.html BigDate d = new BigDate( 1997, 5 , 6 ); could be abbreviated: BigDate (1997, 5, 6) d; This does not require any new keyword. Language designers have jumped through hoops to avoid new keywords, e.g. in generics. -- 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.