Comments on: Why Java is Not My Favorite Language — Reason #39 http://barelyenough.org/blog/2005/06/why-java-is-not-my-favorite-language-%e2%80%94-reason-39/ … and there is much to be learned Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:46:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Kevin http://barelyenough.org/blog/2005/06/why-java-is-not-my-favorite-language-%e2%80%94-reason-39/comment-page-1/#comment-62952 Kevin Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:27:45 +0000 http://pezra.barelyenough.org/blog/2005/06/why-java-is-not-my-favorite-language-%e2%80%94-reason-39/#comment-62952 <p>Java may be early-bound, but there is a reflection system for situations just like this.</p> <p>Just make log(Object obj) do an instanceOf check for throwables and get rid of the log(Throwable e) version.</p> <p>You get the performance of an early-bound language and all the optimizations that the compiler can perform on a strongly-typed language AND you get the ability to do late-bound operations through the reflection system, though I admit that using reflection results in verbose code ( shouldn't matter since it is rarely used )</p> Java may be early-bound, but there is a reflection system for situations just like this.

Just make log(Object obj) do an instanceOf check for throwables and get rid of the log(Throwable e) version.

You get the performance of an early-bound language and all the optimizations that the compiler can perform on a strongly-typed language AND you get the ability to do late-bound operations through the reflection system, though I admit that using reflection results in verbose code ( shouldn’t matter since it is rarely used )

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