It's not named parameters as much as optional parameters that assists COM. Method resolution is certainly complex with those meassures! However, they waited 10 years before adding that, caving in to customer demand.
On Nov 14, 11:40 pm, Miroslav Pokorny <[email protected]> wrote: > A significant minority of the features in c# only because of com: to list a > few: named parameters, pinning, out, value types( ok maybe not entirely > true)... Maybe java is simple but at least it doesn't exist purely to support > some legacy rechnogy like corba. > > On 14/11/2010, at 9:23 PM, Casper Bang <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Whereas a language that requires you to jump through hoops to get > > things done, is a good language? Your own Lombok is a pretty good > > example of that, a hack layer stuffed in between language and IDE, to > > make up for previous inferior and erroneous decisions. > > > On Nov 13, 9:04 pm, Reinier Zwitserloot <[email protected]> wrote: > >> A language with 100 outdated features almost nobody uses anymore > >> because they are obscure or simply not really needed anymore due to > >> optimisations, is a bad language. > > >> On Nov 12, 6:13 am, Casper Bang <[email protected]> wrote: > > >>>> Exception C# (the language) will be stuck with it. > > >>> How so? Why does the fact that you can choose stack allocation up- > >>> front today, prevent any future similar optimization of heap object > >>> graphs that you just described? > > >>> C# tends to not dictate the world so much as Java. Want pass-by- > >>> reference? You can have it. Want pointers? No problem. > > >>> Future optimizations are always nice, but not neccesarily at the > >>> expence of the past. Example, Java enums are superior to C# enums, yet > >>> you had to do roll your own pseudo-enums the first 10 years in Java. > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "The Java Posse" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]. > > For more options, visit this group > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
