Feedback and comments on ARM proposal (original) (raw)

Jeremy Manson jeremy.manson at gmail.com
Sat Mar 14 22:56:02 PDT 2009

It is probably worth pointing out that the flip side of this in our discussions was that variables are also block-scoped, so there was wiggle room for people who believed that this whole issue was secretly a scoping issue for variables and didn't have anything at all to do with blocks of code.

Jeremy

On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 10:31 PM, Joshua Bloch <jjb at google.com> wrote:

On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 7:55 PM, Howard Lovatt <howard.lovatt at iee.org>wrote:

Instead of writing: try ( Resource r = new Resource() ) {  r.doSomething(); } You would write: final Resource r = new Resource(); r.doSomething(); This is so much more Java like than the block construct There is room for disagreement here.  We discussed this extensively at Google when I drafted the proposal, and we ended up eschewing a declaration-based approach because there was general agreement that it was much less Java-like to imbue the closing bracket with such "magical powers." Josh

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