Static imports

I have no idea which crack smoking monkeys thought this was a good idea. Talk about clash of the namespaces. Has no one ever tried to use java.util.Date and java.sql.Date in the same class? But while we’re at it, can we have pointer arithmetic back as well? Ooo…ooo…how about C#-like properties. Yeah! You know, I’d really like to be able to embed java-byte code directly into my source using some kind of assembler-like syntax too. Imagine how cool that would be!

I take comfort in the fact that large organisations (for whom I’m most concerned) are so slow to move, their developers won’t see JDK 1.5 for at least the next 3 years hehehe.

Oh well. I can see a new checkstyle plugin coming real soon.