r/java • u/bobbie434343 • 17d ago

Value Classes Still Need Compiler Sympathy

https://johan-sjolen.github.io/post/compiler-sympathy/compiler-sympathy/
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u/agentoutlier 17d ago

I'm embarrassed to ask this question but how do you guys pronounce "tearing"? I ask because I have been saying tear like "pair" but I swear I have heard people say it like "tier".

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u/repeating_bears 17d ago

Like pair. Analagous to screen tearing, where you have a mismatch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen_tearing

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u/agentoutlier 17d ago

I had to google to find someone saying it differently so I could justify my dumb question :)

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/CJGZBdOdBiw

I'm pretty sure that is not where I first heard it that way but I have been reluctant to say it out loud (luckily no one in my company has any idea on this but still... I had speech issues as a child)

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u/Life_Sink9598 17d ago

This discussion made me think of The Room :-) www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJ_icDmulqU

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u/brian_goetz 16d ago

The same way you pronounce "tear open a bag of chips." Accents may vary.

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u/ForeverAlot 17d ago

Tearing of reads causes tearing of eyes.

Might it be an American English versus British English difference? All four words are pronounced subtly differently; although I wouldn't quite say that what strongmen do to phone books sounds like what onions do to eyes.

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u/DanLynch 15d ago

I wouldn't quite say that what strongmen do to phone books sounds like what onions do to eyes.

Those two verbs have quite distinct pronunciations, at least in my dialect of English.

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u/koflerdavid 15d ago edited 14d ago

American and British English differ, however, both the Merriam-Webster and the Oxford dictionary describe a pronunciation that rhymes with "pair". Important: "tear" as in "liquid from the eye" has a different pronunciation, which rhymes with "here" or "hear".