Re: News for Java?

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Thu, 06 Jan 2011 19:04:28 -0500
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On 05-01-2011 23:41, 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.


You should handle IOException anyway.

If EndOfFileException were indeed exceptional, then I could
not see the problem.

Arne

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