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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."

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  1. it does work if you do this... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    javac -source 1.5 filename

  2. I MISS JON KATZ!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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    1. Re:I MISS JON KATZ!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      how is this offtopic?

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    2. Re:I MISS JON KATZ!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  3. Mac by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Darn it, the Mac just got JDK version 1.4.2...

    http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/java/

  4. come on down by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    yeah this is it CLICK NOW!

  5. FOAD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fuck off and die.. all of you

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  6. Re:an annoying quirk by TheSunborn · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The reasen this can't be allowed is very simply: Look at this:

    ArrayList s = new ArrayList();
    ArrayList t = s; // Does not compile, but asume that it would.

    t.addElement(new Float(10.5)); // Now we have added a float to a list which can ONLY contain integers. Not good.

    Integer i= s.elementAt(0); // Class cast exception.

    Allowing t=s would ruin the entire "You are sure your collection only can contain what it say it contains, and we check that at compile time"

  7. Re:an annoying quirk by dnoyeb · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What do you mean it does not compile??? Of course it compiles. What are you talking about? Did you mis-type?

    Since when did you DEFINE that the arrayList could only contain integers??? I see no such constraint.

  8. Re:an annoying quirk by tdelaney · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    i = [1, 2, 3] # array of integer
    n = i # array of number
    Seems like other languages support it ...