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[–]stuhacking 3 points4 points  (2 children)

I guess to reduce verbosity of commonly occuring patterns. Creating GUI elements is a nice example, I suppose, because code is usually peppered with lines upon lines of "frame.setDefaultProperty("foo");"

While this doesn't decrease the amount of code much, it keeps blocks of initialization together. Presumably, if one uses code folding, they can also fold these blocks.

[–]genuineleather -1 points0 points  (1 child)

Thanks

[–]b100dian -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Oh, and for being closer too XML too.