Re: Why =?UTF-8?B?4oCcbmV34oCdPw==?=

From:

Lew <noone@lewscanon.com>

Newsgroups:

comp.lang.java.programmer

Date:

Tue, 08 Feb 2011 07:48:02 -0500

Message-ID:

<iire1f$987$1@news.albasani.net>

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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