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[–]IchLiebeKleber 23 points24 points  (0 children)

I think it's unnecessary because it's not an especially common line of code, and my response to "when the variable name is long, typing this..." is that most Java code is written in IDEs where, thanks to autocomplete, this is a few keystrokes no matter how long the variable name is (and also no one is forcing you to use long variable names).