Method reference double-colon syntax

Brian Goetz brian.goetz at oracle.com
Thu May 31 06:17:36 PDT 2012


I always wondered which came first: that they shared the same key 
position on US/UK keyboards, or that they shared the name.  Chicken?  Egg?

On 5/31/2012 2:27 AM, Jack Moxley wrote:
> I don't want to be pedantic, but if you don't mind referring to # as the hash symbol instead in future correspondence / mail.
>
> Otherwise your going to confuse every British developer out there all of whom refer to £ as the pound symbol.
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> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On 31 May 2012, at 03:43, Brian Goetz<brian.goetz at oracle.com>  wrote:
>
>> what is the pound symbol used
>> for in Java", most would say "nothing".
>


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