Software As She’s Developed

I am amazed that for all the talk about future Java features, there is hardly any mention of operator overloading. Certainly syntactic sugar is high on the priority list, with the Java world starting to realise the benefits of powerful literals and closures. (Good thing too. Steve Yegge: “Java’s biggest failing, I’ve decided, is its […]

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I often want to use an operator called “but”, the complete equivalent to “and”. It would let me say: if guest.wants_to_see(report) but report.is_premium_content raise PremiumContentException end As opposed to: if guest.wants_to_see(report) and report.is_premium_content raise PremiumContentException end The first example is easier to comprehend because it’s closer to the business rule and the way we think […]

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