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From: Thufir <hawat.thufir@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: diamond operator
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On Fri, 06 Apr 2012 17:07:49 +0200, Silvio Bierman wrote:

> Typing is irrelevant. Laving out the left hand type increases
> readability by removing redundancy. In a different world your example
> could have been
> 
> auto map = new Map<Integer,List<String>>();
> 
> Any keyword as a replacement for auto would work.

While I'm familiar with neither Scala nor Haskell, that seems a bad 
idea.  What happened to the idea of using a, for example, Ferrari 
interface on a Car instance?  Sure, the object is a Car, but that Ferrari 
interface is used, well, not for convenience per se, but as a reminder 
that this Car is not *just* a Car.

You're suggestion is completely contrary to that principle.  While I 
appreciate that it's easier, I don't get the point.

That being said, in Ruby you instantiate with:

foo = Bar.new

which is quite nice and simple.



-Thufir