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Re: Java is killing me! (AKA: Java for Pythonheads?)

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On Fri, 12 Aug 2011 17:02:38 +0000 (UTC), kj <no.email@please.post>
declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general:
> 
> As far as I can tell (admittedly I'm no Java expert, and have not
> programmed in it since 2001), to implement a Java method with n
> optional arguments, one needs at least 2**n method definitions.
> Even if all but one of these definitions are simple wrappers that
> call the one that does all the work, it's still a lot of code to
> wade through, for nothing.
>
	Does this apply?

http://download.oracle.com/javase/1,5.0/docs/guide/language/varargs.html
 
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Java is killing me! (AKA: Java for Pythonheads?) kj <no.email@please.post> - 2011-08-12 17:02 +0000
  Re: Java is killing me! (AKA: Java for Pythonheads?) Nathan Rice <nathan.alexander.rice@gmail.com> - 2011-08-12 13:15 -0400
  Re: Java is killing me! (AKA: Java for Pythonheads?) MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2011-08-12 18:35 +0100
    Re: Java is killing me! (AKA: Java for Pythonheads?) rav <rafalgulinski@gmail.com> - 2011-08-13 06:17 -0700
  Re: Java is killing me! (AKA: Java for Pythonheads?) Alain Ketterlin <alain@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> - 2011-08-12 19:45 +0200
  Re: Java is killing me! (AKA: Java for Pythonheads?) Miki Tebeka <miki.tebeka@gmail.com> - 2011-08-12 11:18 -0700
  Re: Java is killing me! (AKA: Java for Pythonheads?) Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-08-12 21:39 +0100
  Re: Java is killing me! (AKA: Java for Pythonheads?) Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2011-08-12 23:31 -0700
  Re: Java is killing me! (AKA: Java for Pythonheads?) Dirk Olmes <dirk@xanthippe.ping.de> - 2011-08-15 16:16 +0000

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