On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 04:45, Steven Herod <steven.he...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sep 24, 11:56 am, "hayden.paul.jo...@gmail.com"
> <hayden.paul.jo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 1) No news about the Java store.
>
> I think we'll chalk it up as 'embarrassing failure' with a small press
> release remarking its death.
>
> > 2) No news about ASF and the JCK. By the way, what's wrong with them
> > just saying, "No, you're not going to get it because we earn revenue
> > from this."
>
> Because more bad can come from a definitive no than an ambivalent
> probably not?
>
> > 3) Interesting JavaFX script is being dropped. But not even a straw
> > man proposal of what the java syntax to the library would look like.
>
> I think this was covered wasn't it? JavaBean style... so
>
> Rectangle {
> width: 10
> height: 10
> background:
> }
>
> is going to be
>
> Rectangle r = new Rectangle();
> r.setWidth(10);
> r.setHeight(10);
> r.setbackground();
> ..
> ..
> ..
>
> *sob*
>
So, what's wrong with that? I thought the myriad Scala threads on this list
had conclusively established that nobody needs syntactic sugar in the first
place and besides, Java isn't really full of boilerplatey verbosity, that's
just the haters talking.
(ducks) ;-)
// Ben
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