Hi, I really do not know why some proposals are restored back from the grave, without answering for questions that was already made: http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk8-dev/2011-December/000382.html
2014-03-28 12:37 GMT+01:00 Ulf Zibis <ulf.zi...@cosoco.de>: > > Am 28.03.2014 11:05, schrieb Florian Weimer: >>> >>> String mySub = >>> myVeryLongNamedString.substring(.indexOf("C"),.indexOf("Q")); >> >> >> You can already write >> >> String mySub = apply(myVeryLongNamedString, >> (s) -> s.substring(s.indexOf("C"), s.indexOf("Q"))) >> >> with a helper function like this: >> >> public static <T, R> R apply(T value, Function<T, R> func) { >> return func.apply(value); >> } >> >> >> You don't even need to repeat the type. But the explicit version isn't >> too bad, either: >> >> String mySub; >> { >> String s = myVeryLongNamedString; >> mySub = s.substring(s.indexOf("C"), s.indexOf("Q")); >> } >> >> So I'm not sure if leading dot expressions are all that helpful. > > > Hm, nice hacks, but don't you notice the difference in readability and total > amount of code lines in comparison to my proposed one-liner? > IMHO the more lines/characters a code has, the more effort is needed to (1) > read it and (2) understand it's sense. > > BTW, our 2nd example wouldn't work as expression in for loop arguments. > > But what for do we discuss the "leading dot expressions" such exhaustive, if > there still is no conviction to add the simple "chaining syntax" to the Java > language at all? > > -Ulf > -- Pozdrawiam Marek Kozieł ( Lasu ) http://na-chlodno.blogspot.com/ http://lasu2string.blogspot.com/