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Post #66,850 by deSitter 12/5/02 9:55:51 AM Reply	Re: Java - a baby step towards Smalltalk -a giant leap What is autoboxing? -drl
Post #66,883 by tseliot 12/5/02 11:12:52 AM Reply	Read the link An automatic conversion from primitive types to their corresponding reference type wrappers. This conversion facilitates the integration of generics into the language, and reduces inessential clutter. Many fears are born of stupidity and ignorance - Which you should be feeding with rumour and generalisation. BOfH, 2002 "Episode" 10
Post #66,884 by ChrisR 12/5/02 11:13:35 AM Reply	Java gravitating towards C#? All the features cited are merely copying nicety features from C#. Autoboxing is the automatic encapsulation (de-encapsulation) of primitive types into object types (vice-versa) when required. It's always been a pain in Java to have collections of primitives, since the primitives have to be boxed in terms of their related Class Type: Integer i = new Integer(123); int j = i.intValue(); Boxing tries to obviate the need for explicit casting, so that you can write: Integer i = 123; int j = i;
Post #66,890 by deSitter 12/5/02 11:31:51 AM Reply	Re: Java gravitating towards C#? That's a horrible idea - the return of the implicit cast in a way. -drl

Java - a baby step towards Smalltalk -a giant leap towards C - (tuberculosis) - (25) - Dec. 5, 2002, 05:43:17 AM EST

Re: Java - a baby step towards Smalltalk -a giant leap - (deSitter) - (3) - Dec. 5, 2002, 09:55:51 AM EST

Read the link - (tseliot) - Dec. 5, 2002, 11:12:52 AM EST

Java gravitating towards C#? - (ChrisR) - (1) - Dec. 5, 2002, 11:13:35 AM EST

Re: Java gravitating towards C#? - (deSitter) - Dec. 5, 2002, 11:31:51 AM EST

They won't admit they were wrong - (bluke) - (19) - Dec. 5, 2002, 11:00:34 AM EST

I had a "discussion" with a C++ programmer - (admin) - (11) - Dec. 5, 2002, 11:02:36 AM EST

Re: I had a "discussion" with a C++ programmer - (tuberculosis) - (10) - Dec. 5, 2002, 01:42:49 PM EST

Re: I had a "discussion" with a C++ programmer - (neelk) - (9) - Dec. 9, 2002, 09:40:00 AM EST

Roll your own... - (ChrisR) - (8) - Dec. 9, 2002, 05:34:17 PM EST

Interesting summary - (ben_tilly) - Dec. 9, 2002, 06:55:04 PM EST

Needle... - (neelk) - (6) - Dec. 10, 2002, 08:34:03 AM EST

What is the underlying motivation? - (tuberculosis) - (5) - Dec. 10, 2002, 01:22:39 PM EST

Re: What is the underlying motivation? - (neelk) - (4) - Dec. 10, 2002, 04:46:58 PM EST

Suggestion... - (ben_tilly) - Dec. 10, 2002, 08:47:27 PM EST

Have fun - (tuberculosis) - (2) - Dec. 11, 2002, 03:18:27 AM EST

Re: Have fun - (neelk) - (1) - Dec. 11, 2002, 09:41:19 AM EST

Sounds cool - compare it to Strongtalk? - (tuberculosis) - Dec. 11, 2002, 09:55:29 AM EST

I'd like to see it. - (tuberculosis) - (4) - Dec. 5, 2002, 01:32:53 PM EST

Some shortcomings of primitives - (bluke) - (3) - Dec. 8, 2002, 07:39:19 AM EST

Yep, seen all those. - (tuberculosis) - (2) - Dec. 9, 2002, 05:24:46 AM EST

Unfortunately people like Gosling ... - (bluke) - Dec. 9, 2002, 09:47:58 AM EST

Heh. There's a reason for that. - (tseliot) - Dec. 9, 2002, 11:35:23 AM EST

Java 1 wasn't *that* bad - (wharris2) - (1) - Dec. 10, 2002, 05:44:29 PM EST

Wasn't bad??? - (bluke) - Dec. 11, 2002, 03:39:26 AM EST

The Java-Language-Design Research Algorithm, Unleashed - (bluke) - Dec. 7, 2002, 03:38:04 PM EST

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