chchrutuch

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   by chchrutuch 11y ago

   It's alternate syntax, or, if you want to go there, you can say it's syntactic sugar. Take a few minutes to go read the bytecode Java generates on something like person.getName() to see how this is being handled at that level. Fu
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   by chchrutuch 11y ago

   I can find points I disagree with on every language here, but this author seems to have quite the bias against Java, so I'll make a few counterarguments. "If you write Java code that has no side-effects, that doesn't read or
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   by chchrutuch 11y ago

   It's not and anyone arguing to the contrary is wrong. The article is way off base on this. You could argue it's purely syntactic sugar, but really, it's barely even: it's just alternate syntax. People arguing against