On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 8:21 AM, Serge Boulay <serge.bou...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Is there some particular reason Oracle choose the diamond operator over > something like “var” ? > Introducing a new keyword is always very, very dangerous and has the potential to break a lot of code (witness what happened with assert), so any language designer worth their salt will always avoid doing so unless there is really no other way. The diamond operator is a reasonable compromise but considering that we can already achieve a similar effect today(*), I am not particularly thrilled by this new feature. (*) List<Integer> l = Lists.newArrayList(); -- Cédric -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
