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by 35bge57dtjku 3155 days ago
Even if that were true, it still wastes a lot of space and can make reading the whole body of code more difficult. Just think about how easy it would be if Java had 2 or 5 times the boilerplate code it has now. According to you it'd be "invisible," but it'd still be a lot worse.