Re: Please tighten up these 10 lines of Java code

metaperl <metaperl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Many thanks for all the helpful replies. I have studied this thread
closely and implemented a few of them. In looking through Norvig's
JScheme (an old 1.4 version), I noticed he abbreviated writing to
output this way:

PrintWriter output = new PrintWriter(System.out, true);

Then he could simply do output.print() or whatever.

If the goal is to avoid typing, why wrap another layer around the
stream?

PrintStream output = System.out;

Yes, PrintStream is deprecated; but it's not like you actually avoid it
by wrapping it in something else. You just pretend like you avoid it,
and I'm not a fan of pretending.

--
Chris Smith
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