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Java SDK 1.5 'Tiger' Beta Finally Released

Posted by simoniker on from the mmm-syntactic-sugar dept.

kingkola writes "Finally, after about two years of development, the Beta for Java SDK 1.5, aka Tiger, has been released. Features added in this edition include generics support, autoboxing of primitives, syntactic sugar for loops, enumerated types, variable arguments, sharing of memory between multiple VMs and a bunch of other bugfixes, enchancements, etc."

10 of 602 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Too little, too late by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    C# innovated 'foreach'?

    WTF crackpipe are you sucking on?

  2. Re:Too little, too late by kinga · · Score: 5, Funny


    Grennis: C# innovated!
    Inigo Montoya: You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

  3. Re:Mac by goljerp · · Score: 1, Funny

    I knew that 1.5 beta was coming out soon, because Apple just released Java 1.4.2.

  4. Re:FOAD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Slow Down CowboyNeil, you fucking fat fuck!!!

    Aww... someone needs a hug and a warm cup of cocoa!

  5. Re:Too little, too late by lobsterGun · · Score: 2, Funny
    There can be bugs in a language too.

    Try this in Visual C++


    void foo()
    {
    for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++){}
    for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++){}
    }


    you'll get a compiler error stating that i has been declared twice. For some reason, Visual C++ puts the 'int i' in the function scope rather than in the loop's scope.
  6. Re:IPv6 for windows finally by The+Clockwork+Troll · · Score: 2, Funny

    You must mean JDK1.5 supports a 128-bit BigFuckingInteger type? Cool! I would officially like to indicate that "-1" in such a field means "INVALID HOST -- CONSULT VERISIGN SITEFINDER". Are you writing this down people?

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    There are no karma whores, only moderation johns
  7. "enchancements" by tehcyder · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is it just me who loves that typo?

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    To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
  8. That's because most java programmers are idiots by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    If the only tool you have is a straightjacket, everyone else looks insane.

  9. Re:"syntactic sugar for loops"? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Not to mention that syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.

    AC

  10. Re:New features - Half way there by (void*)cheerio · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm crossing my fingers...And I must say, I'm quite excited about future possibilities...

    Just think:

    Java 1.6 : Overloadable operators
    Java 1.7 : Pointers
    Java 1.7.1 : Void Pointers

    The prospect of the combination of overloadable operators and pointers? Oh baby baby baby!