16 May
2016
16 May
'16
10:56 p.m.
Hmm... In Java there is a form of syntactic sugar that automatically deals with such boxes called auto-(un)boxing, IIUC. So I still think it can be called syntactic sugar. On Monday, May 16, 2016, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
Guido van Rossum wrote:
I know. But this could be considered syntactic sugar.
I don't think it is just syntactic sugar. There is a real difference between having a box containing either an apple or a banana, and having just an apple or a banana.
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