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From: Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at>
Subject: Re: Java 7 feature Q.
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Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> wrote:
> "00101010" wrote:
>> Did they, like promised, add the waka waka shortcut for the instance 
>> creation operator?
> Of which "they" do you speak?  There has never been a promise for Java
> to have a "waka waka" shortcut, whatever the heck that is,
> and Java doesn't have an instance creation operator.

Isn't "new" an instance creation operator?

I've got a vague idea what he might have meant with "waka waka",
but I'll leave it to him to clarify.