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brabel on Dec 19, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Java in the Small

> As of Java 23, three methods are automatically imported from java.io.IO: println, print, readln

I thought they had just hallucinated `java.io.IO`, but apparently it's a new type, available in Java 23 with --enable-preview: https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/23/docs/api/java.base...

mtrovo on Dec 19, 2024 [–]

It looks like they took lots of inspiration from Kotlin with these new implicit imports and their structure.

brabel on Dec 20, 2024 | [–]

Groovy and Scala already did that way before Kotlin.

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