From: Daniel Carrera <dcarrera@...>
Date: 2003-08-01T22:21:36+09:00
Subject: Re: OT: Nice

On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 10:18:24PM +0900, Paul Brannan wrote:

> One question: what is the purpose of the '@' character in an argument
> list, e.g.:
> 
>   display(p@Person) 
>   { 
>     return p.name + " (age=" + p.age + ")"; 
>   } 

I think it just "declares" p as an instance of Person.  So it's not 
really different from the C version.


> And how does it differ from the C-style argument lists:
> 
>   void main(String[] args)
>   {
>     System.out.println("Hello, world!");
>   }


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