Re: Why =?UTF-8?B?4oCcbmV34oCdPw==?=

From:
Lew <noone@lewscanon.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Sat, 05 Feb 2011 09:22:53 -0500
Message-ID:
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On 02/05/2011 01:29 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

In message<iii71v$3ud$1@lust.ihug.co.nz>, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

How many hundreds of times a day do Java programm[er]s write something like

     classname varname = new classname(args);


And this just gets worse with generic types, e.g.

     GenericClass<Type1, Type2> x = new GenericClass<Type1, Type2>;


OOOhh! You're right! That's simply TERRIBLE! I sure hope you didn't sprain
a finger with all that typing!

because Java has no typedefs like C++:

     typedef GenericClass<Type1, Type2>
         ShortName;


Unnecessary feature and one of limited benefit.

Or you could probably fudge it:

     class ShortName extends GenericClass<Type1, Type2> {}


As long as 'Type1' and 'Type2' are actual types, as your nomenclature hints,
and not type parameters. 'ShortName' is not a typedef, though, it's a new type.

I think you'll just have to put up with typing Ctrl-V or letting your IDE
autocomplete all those horrible, finger-spraining, documentation-improving,
safety-guaranteeing, extremely low-overhead, helpfully redundant type
declarataions. Maybe you should wear a finger brace to relieve the strain.

Or spend a year tarring roofs to get a sense of perspective.

--
Lew
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