Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.datemas.de!rt.uk.eu.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: thinbluernime Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Java blunders Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 07:28:33 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: c5i75lsJyAeGcwZx8vRYWA.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Opera Mail/12.10 (MacIntel) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:29332 On Fri, 25 Jul 2014 00:32:47 -0500, Leif Roar Moldskred wrote: > thinbluernime wrote: >> On Wed, 23 Jul 2014 02:01:05 -0500, Leif Roar Moldskred wrote: >> >>> * No Elvis-operator or similar (it would make logging logic a lot >>> more >>> pleasant to write.) >> >> "Elvis-operator"? (And please don't anybody suggest that googling >> "Elvis" could *possibly* be useful here.) > > Well, you could try googling "?:", but I suspect it would be more > fruitful to google for "elvis operator". It clearly wasn't for you, if that resulted in you thinking the OP meant the ?: operator, when he clearly didn't (as whatever he meant is something Java lacks, but Jave *has* the ?: operator). > The _output_ of the JavaDoc tool should of course be HTML. The _input_ > is just text with markup, and it was an unfortunate choice to choose > HTML-style tags as the markup language for that text. Ah, so rather than also force the reinvention of the browser, you'd "merely" want everyone to learn an extra (and no doubt idiosyncratic) markup language instead of using the one everyone already knows. Gotcha.