First I must say that it was about time! When I switched from simula, inner classes and "method parameters" where sorely missed. The first was fixed in 1.1, the other is adressed now and in a very respectable way , too.
Second, I think the suggestion in it self is great, except for non-local returns which I think only complicates stuff without adding any significant benefit. Also, the "further ideas" found in Neal Gafter's blog seems to me like a real miss. The Java language _could_ have been designed to accept calls to any method without parantheses around the parameters, just like in (visual) Basic, but, in fact, it is't because it makes the code less readable. Allowing that for certain kinds of methods and calls is definately not a good idea. |
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