Groups > comp.lang.java.programmer > #37491

Re: underscore as keyword in Java 9

Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer
Date	2017-09-27 06:53 -0700
References	<slrnoscj1i.ijn.avl@logic.at>
Message-ID	<febf1d6b-caae-4daa-b162-80997e0faa15@googlegroups.com> (permalink)
Subject	Re: underscore as keyword in Java 9
From	Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com>

Show all headers | View raw

On Saturday, September 23, 2017 at 7:58:52 AM UTC-4, Andreas Leitgeb wrote:
> When googling for underscore keyword I found a mail by Brian Goetz, where
> he hinted for a future use of the "_" keyword:
> 
>   http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/lambda-dev/2013-July/010670.html
> 
> " However, things it might be used for include things like "I don't want
> " to give this variable a name" (such as catch parameters that are never
> " used.)
> 
> Now, some people might already have used that identifier in exactly such
> circumstances, namely for variable names that need to be there
> syntactically, but are not intended to be used.
> 
> It strikes me odd, that Java would first forbid them generally, only to 
> later essentially encourage that particular use again.
> 
> Maybe, if that was the intention already 4 years ago, they should only 
> have made uses of "_" as values (lvalue or rvalue) illegal.
> 
> Comments?  Maybe there have risen newer intentions for different uses
> in the meantime?

Not sure when this started, just happened to check today and noticed Oracle officially has Java 9 on their download page (http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html).

Thread

underscore as keyword in Java 9 Andreas Leitgeb <avl@logic.at> - 2017-09-23 11:58 +0000
  Re: underscore as keyword in Java 9 j4n bur53 <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2017-09-23 18:46 +0200
    Re: underscore as keyword in Java 9 Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2017-09-23 21:01 -0400
      Re: underscore as keyword in Java 9 Andreas Leitgeb <avl@logic.at> - 2017-09-24 11:25 +0000
        Re: underscore as keyword in Java 9 j4n bur53 <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2017-09-24 17:30 +0200
        Re: underscore as keyword in Java 9 Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2017-09-24 18:24 -0400
          Re: underscore as keyword in Java 9 Andreas Leitgeb <avl@logic.at> - 2017-09-24 23:27 +0000
            Re: underscore as keyword in Java 9 Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2017-09-24 21:10 -0400
              Re: underscore as keyword in Java 9 Andreas Leitgeb <avl@logic.at> - 2017-09-25 13:30 +0000
    Re: underscore as keyword in Java 9 Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2017-09-25 08:07 -0700
      Re: underscore as keyword in Java 9 lewbloch@gmail.com - 2017-09-25 13:21 -0700
      Re: underscore as keyword in Java 9 Silvio <silvio@internet.com> - 2017-09-25 23:30 +0200
        Re: underscore as keyword in Java 9 Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2017-09-25 20:24 -0400
          Re: underscore as keyword in Java 9 j4n bur53 <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2017-09-26 13:37 +0200
          Re: underscore as keyword in Java 9 Silvio <silvio@internet.com> - 2017-09-27 19:05 +0200
            Re: underscore as keyword in Java 9 Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2017-09-27 10:25 -0700
              Re: underscore as keyword in Java 9 Silvio <silvio@internet.com> - 2017-09-27 23:02 +0200
            Re: underscore as keyword in Java 9 Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2017-09-27 20:02 -0400
              Re: underscore as keyword in Java 9 Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2017-09-28 05:11 -0700
                Re: underscore as keyword in Java 9 Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2017-09-28 20:42 -0400
          Re: underscore as keyword in Java 9 Sebastian <nowhere@nirvana.org> - 2017-09-27 20:26 +0200
            Re: underscore as keyword in Java 9 Silvio <silvio@internet.com> - 2017-09-27 23:10 +0200
        Re: underscore as keyword in Java 9 Andreas Leitgeb <avl@logic.at> - 2017-09-26 08:29 +0000
          Re: underscore as keyword in Java 9 Silvio <silvio@internet.com> - 2017-09-27 19:08 +0200
          Re: underscore as keyword in Java 9 Sebastian <nowhere@nirvana.org> - 2017-09-27 21:46 +0200
  Re: underscore as keyword in Java 9 Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2017-09-27 06:53 -0700
    Re: underscore as keyword in Java 9 Andreas Leitgeb <avl@logic.at> - 2017-09-27 15:59 +0000
      Re: underscore as keyword in Java 9 Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2017-09-27 19:18 -0400
        Re: underscore as keyword in Java 9 Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte.net> - 2017-09-28 11:41 +0200

csiph-web