Re: bali [was: Re: The capacity method in StringBuffer]
Wayne wrote:
Roedy Green wrote:
On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:41:48 -0500, "Charles Hottel"
<chottel@earthlink.net> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who
said :
What do you recommend that we use in their place?
I want the language changed, to behave something like C#, Eiffel or
Delphi. My proposal is in my Bali document.
See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/bali.html
For now, there is no alternative.
The Powers That Be must be reading your site; many of your
suggestions (enums, assertions, for-each loops, ...)
have now been included in Java. Maybe you should update
this document with new "wish list" items, you never know!
"Now"? Assertions were added in 2002 (and in beta in 2001), enums and
for-each in 2004, back when autoboxing, varargs, generics and the corrected
memory model were brought in.
The other features of Bali make it an interesting language to target for the JVM.
One nit - the bali site mentions
<http://mindprod.com/jgloss/bali.html#MODULUS>
Java2"s modulus [sic]
operator. Java does not have a modulo operator, as Roedy points out elsewhere
on mindprod. He also points out that "modulus" is an informal name, which it
truly is.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modulo_operation>
discusses the matters involved in implementing modulo vs. remainder
operations, and has a chart showing how various languages treat the issue of
signed operands.
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