On Sep 12, 4:05 pm, Cédric Beust ♔ wrote:
> Jave has indeed had closures since day one (e.g. Runnable, Callable,
> etc...). If you're not convinced, ask yourself the following question: is
> there any programming construct that you will be able to do in Java 8 with
> closure support that you can'
lected,
which doesn't appear to be true. There are ClassLoader leaks
associated with the Java libraries, including ThreadLocal, JDBC
DriverManager and Java Beans.
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On Feb 3, 4:55 pm, jwd wrote:
> This instance initializer syntax seems to get rediscovered every year
> or so. The first identification as a Java idiom that I was aware of
> was Paul Holser'shttp://www.pholser.com/writings/concisions.htmlFWIW
> the language specification for this can be found
>
On Nov 23, 6:19 pm, Cédric Beust ♔ wrote:
> By "frictionless", do you mean "manual", "error prone" and "taking forever"?
I mean the flow is:
program, program, program
Just working on the text. Whereas trying to use refactoring:
program, deal with idiotic IDE, find where you were, progra
On Nov 22, 10:29 am, Fabrizio Giudici
wrote:
> I see that the word "refactoring" never appears. If I'm not wrong,
> there's almost no support for refactoring Objective C in XCode, right?
> So, when you do a comparison, shouldn't be blamed for this?
If you have a decent text editor, then doing a
On Nov 22, 4:53 pm, Craig Kelley wrote:
> We have an application targeting jre6 that is getting null pointer
> exceptions from variables supposedly declared final, referenced from
> inner classes.
I am guess the difference is in the javac compilation, and which JRE
version you are targeting. `ja
The race is on...
I think we know which language is #1.
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On Jul 19, 12:26 am, Lhasadad wrote:
> swing had not come out. Even after Swing came out there was still an
> interest in something that performed better (Swing was not a barn
> burner in the beginning) Also in those days Sun was not all that fast
Swing on JRE 1.1 wasn't too bad. Swing in JRE
I guess fixed point makes most sense. You aren't going to need values
outside of, er, [-2, 2] (it's a long time since my second year maths
project). There also isn't much point in specially handling values
much smaller. So even long would get you a few more bits than double.
Unfortunately Java (or
o you think that BGGA is free of corner cases?
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e the situation when it does occur are: declare
adding such an overloading a binary incompatible change for old
versions; or declare one of the the overloads as the default for old
versions.
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On Jan 14, 3:28 pm, Reinier Zwitserloot wrote:
> com.package.ContainingClass.foobar(Ljava/util/List;V)
> com.package.ContainingClass.foobar(Ljava/util/List;I)
>
> which is not okay - being only different in return type is not
> allowed. This isn't a big concern and is not generally covered by wh
sspath on a command line. For modules
we have pretty, simplified powerpoint graphs. The graphs contain much
more information and different sorts of relationships, but look easy
because you haven't been shown the text representation.
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On Dec 24, 1:27 am, Hairless_ape wrote:
> Women.(at least you are on the list)
> Free women.(yes you rank below beer)
I can't understand why they don't want to work with us.
Tom
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On Dec 23, 10:51 pm, Paul Wallace
wrote:
> On a holiday theme, what are the things that would make your working
> environment more appealing and productive? Perhaps you have the ideal
> working environment already?
For me the list, more or less in order, looks something like:
- Lights that do
ld starts. As a choice for new mobile content it
would be an eccentric choice. I *think* it's destined for obscurity.
Tom Hawtin
(Disclosure: I work for Sun, but these are my own opinions.)
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On Dec 11, 6:02 pm, Hairless_ape wrote:
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> I'm afraid that with this, Java is dying.
Bingo!
I believe that appears on the "worst blog titles for 2009" Devoxx
whiteboard.
Tom
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think if you redefine the portmanteau as "f** retard" the
podcast makes more sense. "Slashtard" is a more useful word anyway.
Back to the topic: If I'm going to be personally interested, I want to
know if it is Apache 2, or possibly BSD-like. I&
.).
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d to have problems when inner loops were embedded in large
methods. That was only a problem with really badly written code, such
as microbenchmarks and Swing.
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other podcasts (thanks guys!). And the appropriate quantity of dross.
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