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From: Wojtek <nowhere@a.com>
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Subject: Assigning void
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 22:54:57 -0700
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I can legally do the following:

if (server.getConnectionType() == ConnectionType.ACTIVE)
  ftp.enterLocalActiveMode();
else
  ftp.enterLocalPassiveMode();

but I want to do:

(server.getConnectionType() == ConnectionType.ACTIVE) ? 
ftp.enterLocalActiveMode() : ftp.enterLocalPassiveMode();

However the compiler insists that I must have an assignment even though 
both ftp methods return void. I would think that the compiler would be 
smart enough to realize that nothing CAN be returned.

Oh yes, I am using Eclipse with Java 7

Thoughts? I mean other than stylistic comments...

-- 
Wojtek :-)