Re:Google joins .NET Foundation as Samsung brings .NET suppo...
by daxfohl on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @11:07AM
(#12968247)
Anonymous classes are the big thing I miss. (Yes C# has a feature called "anonymous classes" as well, but it's completely different).
Re:Google joins .NET Foundation as Samsung brings .NET suppo...
by TheCoelacanth on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @11:48AM
(#12968764)
What do you still use those for? I can't remember the last time I saw an anonymous class used in a way that isn't superseded by lambdas.
Re:Google joins .NET Foundation as Samsung brings .NET suppo...
by daxfohl on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @12:12PM
(#12969064)
Yeah, I was thinking about that when I wrote the comment. They were most useful for `Observable` objects for event handling in swing; you don't really need that with C# events.
There are still uses though. Lambdas are the future, but there are lots of OO-first libraries that are still quite popular. It'd be nice to create e.g. `new Newtonsoft.JsonConverter() { ReadJson() {...} WriteJson() {...}}` etc on the fly sometimes without needing separate classes.
It's possible in F# though, so nothing dotnet specific is preventing it.
Re:Google joins .NET Foundation as Samsung brings .NET suppo...
by jdmichal on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @02:07PM
(#12970271)
I use them all the time for defining singleton implementations.
public static final MyInterface SINGLETON = new MyInterface() {
...
}
Re:Google joins .NET Foundation as Samsung brings .NET suppo...
by ckarmann on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @11:20PM
(#12974237)
Java enums are the one thing that I miss in other languages.
Re:Google joins .NET Foundation as Samsung brings .NET suppo...
by adzm on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @11:09AM
(#12968278)
If only we could run IL on the JVM
Re:Google joins .NET Foundation as Samsung brings .NET suppo...
by johncolanduoni on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @11:03AM
(#12968190)
You are painfully correct...
And last I checked you couldn't use Java 8 fully on Android (please correct me if I'm wrong).