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Re: Proposed Java Language Extentions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Casey Leedom)
Mon May 8 14:20:09 1995
From: leedom@gauss.asd.sgi.com (Casey Leedom)
To: java-interest@java.Eng.Sun.COM
Date: Mon, 08 May 1995 10:50:10 -0700
One of the extesions that you've adopted was something along the lines of:
int[] a;
as an alternative for
int a[];
I've thought about a syntax something like this to address the C++
stylistic abomination of
int* a;
I hate this for reasons which should be obvious: it's just plain wrong and
deceptive. If I do ``int* a, b;'' I don't end up with two pointers to
integers. Nevertheless, I understand *what* people are trying to convey
when they use such misleading syntax: they're trying to declare a pointer
to an integer that happens to be named ``a'' without having to associate
the asterisk with the name (i.e. ``int *a;'') or invent an intermediate
typedef just to encode ``int *''. What I think would do the trick is the
concept of anonymous inline typedefs. Here's an example of something
along these lines:
<int*> a, b;
It strikes me that your new array declaration alternative syntax is headed
in this derection and that it might better just to finish the job. I.e.:
<int[]> a;
Just my two cents ...
Casey
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