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Original Post: Imagine if Java got rid of semi-colons; and those {brackets} ?
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I ran across Joel-on-software's comments on Python (boils down to "I don't know jack about the language, but the indentation thing is cool!") and I thought about Java doing the same exact thing. Change nothing else but make indentation count. Suddenly Java looks really clean!
Here's a Java Servlet with indentation:
import java.io.*
import javax.servlet.*
import javax.servlet.http.*
public class HelloWorldServlet extends HttpServlet
String content = ""
public void init(ServletConfig servletConfig)
throws ServletException
content = "This is some content"
public void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
throws IOException, ServletException
response.setContentType("text/html")
PrintWriter out = response.getWriter()
out.println("<html>")
out.println("<head>")
out.println("<title>Hello World</title>")
out.println("</head>")
out.println("<body>")
out.println(content)
for(int x = 1; x < 10; x++)
out.println("Testing!")
out.println("</body>")
out.println("</html>")
public void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
throws IOException, ServletException
content = request.getParameter("content")
doGet()
Damn, that looks pretty clean! Notice I didn't get rid of *all* semi-colons, just the ones at the end of statements and it's pretty cool. I actually grabbed a much bigger class file that I have and formatted it, then got rid of the {}'s and ;'s and it too was very clean.
Not that this would ever happen, but it'd be cool.
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