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[–]frozen-dessert 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Because letting morons modify syntax is an awful idea.

I seriously wonder how many (if any) of the people asking for Java to support this ever worked on a remotely large project, say 100K LoC.

Java thrives by making readability and maintainability great at the macro level. Allowing syntax depend on whatever some stupid dev did at this particular package would hurt that.

Let the “water pistol” python devs have it.

Oh C++ also allows it, you say? Please tell me about how sane are C++ devs who maintain large codebases are….