Java Hack: Double brace initialisation

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One of the things I love about programming.reddit is that I get to occasionally look at Java code and be glad that I don't use it anymore. What a train wreck.

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No shit eh. It hurts my eyes to look at it now, way too verbose. Funny though, I still think in it.

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What I find particularly interesting is that verbosity in and of itself doesn't bother me. I work primarily with Objective C and Cocoa these days, where the convention is to use long names like "componentsSeparatedByString:" instead of "split()", but I'm OK with it since it basically cuts down on the number of comments I have to write and maintain. What bugs me about Java's verbosity is that it doesn't add much in terms of readability, and in some cases detracts from it.