An anonymous commenter contributed a cute Ruby example on this post talking about Java's verbosity. The original poster lamented on how much code you have to write to create some basic accessors on a Java class.

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While looking at NegaPosi, a crazy Ruby implementation of a micro language that only uses unary operators, I discovered a cute way to initialize instance variables. Usually you'd do this:

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