On Oct 9, 11:40 am, Bjoern Schliessmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Diez B. Roggisch wrote: ... > >> because [Java] wanted to be new and good but took over much of C++'s > >> syntax and made it even weirder, > > Even weirder? Care to explain?Example: > > int spam = 5; > > but > > String eggs = new String(); > > The latter seems totally unnecessary to me, as well as being too > verbose
It is! All you have to write is String eggs = ""; Unfortunately, the other object types don't have literals. > why couldn't they go the simple way as in Python and > just state > > String eggs; > > -- is it because in C++ it'd mean something different? Can't be, because Java already uses the syntax for something different than C++. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
