On 24 September 2010 06:47, B Smith-Mannschott <bsmith.o...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
> On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 04:45, Steven Herod <steven.he...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>>
>> > 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
>
>
No need to despair, this soon coming to a JVM language near you:
val r = Rectangle {
width = 10
height = 10
background = ...
}
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