Re: Perl Pro but Java Newbie: Need nudge in proper direction for
my favorite Perl routine in Java
/usr/ceo wrote:
Display class. But maybe that's the wrong way to go about it? I
can't believe I have to use a fifty letter package name class method
to print a line to the console. (This is one of the things I hate
I think the right way to go about it would be to get an IDE that handles
abbreviations and macros efficiently. I use NetBeans. It will
substitute the string "sout" followed by a tab to
"System.out.println("");" and put the cursor in the center of the inner
quotes. So I type 5 characters, not 23.
Programmers who come after you aren't going to be terribly excited about
your attempts to custom re-wire the IO classes. They're fine the way
they are.
And "puts" as-is won't handle objects besides string literals, or
primitives, without a lot of work which will duplicate what System.out
does now anyway. So the path you are going down is pretty much lose-lose.
BTW:
System.out.println(
"This is line 1\n" +
"This is line 2\n" +
"This is line 3\n" +
"You get the picture..."
);
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