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Re: underscore as keyword in Java 9

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From	Andreas Leitgeb <avl@logic.at>
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Subject	Re: underscore as keyword in Java 9
Date	Sun, 24 Sep 2017 11:25:43 -0000 (UTC)
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Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> wrote:
> On 9/23/2017 12:46 PM, j4n bur53 wrote:
>> As long as Java doesn't have multi-returns, there
>> will be not many use cases. For multi returns, if
>> they were in the Java language, it could be offered
>> as in the Go Programming Language:
>> /* fetching the y coordinate of a 3D point */
>> _, y, _ := coord(p)
> I suspect that Java will get that in version 10 or 11.
> Reason: C# got it in version 7 (and Java and C# tend
> to steal ideas from each other).
> Syntax like:
> (int v1,int v2) = M();

These speculations are entirely orthogonal to the point that "_"
is taken away from the realm of identifiers, but might in future
be used syntactically like throw-away identifiers - A use they
sometimes already have - and this particular use is now being
forbidden just before likely being re-enabled.

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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

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