Tiger (Java 5.0) Variable method arguments

In Java code you have to use arrays a lot if you want to pass a variable number of arguments to a method. The main method is an excellent and prominent example.

public static void man(String[] args) {
…
}

Java 5.o introduces a new notation ( type … name ) which in my opinion is very elegant and readable. See the following program for example.

public class VarArgs {

    public static void main(String ... args) {   :-)
        printUs("ONE","TWO","THREE");
        printUs("FOUR","FIVE");
    }

    private static void printUs(String ... args) {
       System.out.println("Var args method");
       for (int i = 0;i<args.length;i++) {
           System.out.println( args[i] );
       }
    }

    private static void printUs(String arg1,String arg2)  {
       System.out.println("Specific two argument method ");
       System.out.println( arg1 );
       System.out.println( arg2 );
    }
}

It produces the following output

Var args method
ONE
TWO
THREE
Specific two argument method
FOUR
FIVE

How about that for a main!

The args parameter is handled just like an array.
You can see if there is method specifying an explicit number of parameters of the requested type, it takes precedence

Of course you could also use the new for loop

 private static void printUs(String ... args) {
       System.out.println("Var args method");
       for (String s: args) System.out.println(s);
    }