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  Re: Why “new”? "Mike Schilling" <mscottschilling@hotmail.com> - 2011-02-07 21:00 -0800
    Re: Why “new”? Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-02-08 07:48 -0500

#25604 — Re: Why “new”?

"Lew" <noone@lewscanon.com> wrote in message 
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> Roedy Green wrote:
>>> Java has almost no syntactic sugar other that for:each which came
>>> quite late in the game. The creators of Java were system programmers.
>
> Yet what it does have is so sweet!  Maybe it doesn't need more sugar.

A fair amount of what was added in Java 5 (generics aside) was syntactic 
sugar:

* Variable-parameter functions
* Autoboxing
* The enhanced for loop

The last of these is one of my favorite things in the whole language.
 

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Roedy Green wrote:
>>>> Java has almost no syntactic sugar other that for:each which came
>>>> quite late in the game. The creators of Java were system programmers.

Lew wrote:
>> Yet what it does have is so sweet! Maybe it doesn't need more sugar.

Mike Schilling wrote:
> A fair amount of what was added in Java 5 (generics aside) was syntactic sugar:
>
> * Variable-parameter functions
> * Autoboxing
> * The enhanced for loop
>
> The last of these is one of my favorite things in the whole language.

for ( int ix = 0; ix < limit; ++ix )

is syntactic sugar for a 'while' loop.

'+=' is syntactic sugar for "add and assign".

'?:' is syntactic sugar for a simple 'if/else'.

Leaving implicit the default constructor or the 'super()' call at the top of a 
constructor are syntactic sugar.

Auto-initialization of member fields to their zero-like value is syntactic sugar.

'synchronized' is syntactic sugar for taking out (and releasing!) a lock on a 
monitor.

'import' is syntactic sugar for FQNs.

Yeah, Roedy, Java has almost no syntactic sugar!

-- 
Lew
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