[The Java Posse] Anyone using ultrabook for development?

2012-10-07 Thread ranjith
With so many choice on thin and "mobile" laptops, I am thinking of switching from my Apple MBP 15" for smaller laptop. Is anyone using ultrabook for development purpose and have success stories with eclipse and an app. server running pretty decently on it? Answers appreciated. -- You received

Re: [The Java Posse] Returning Void

2012-10-07 Thread Kevin Wright
Just to put this into perspective for those who don't know the concepts: Bottom is the universal subtype, it's a subtype of EVERYTHING else in the type system, including primitives. It also only makes sense as a type, it's never actually possible to have an instance of Bottom. There's no way to

Re: [The Java Posse] Returning Void

2012-10-07 Thread Simon Ochsenreither
I think it is an interesting example how some "pragmatic" and superficially simpler approach tends to break down and cause complexity in both the spec and the implementation compared to the "academic" solution. >From a language design POV there are multiple issues here: - Primitive types vs.

Re: [The Java Posse] Returning Void

2012-10-07 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
On Sat, 06 Oct 2012 19:19:24 +0200, Reinier Zwitserloot wrote: It's also not 'laziness in the compiler' - Void is not void, end of story. Trying to make the compiler sugarcoat a method that returns j.l.Void and has no return statements implies all sorts of 'under the hood magic' that javac