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Comment by AdieuToLogic

17 hours ago

> You almost never see a list of banned Java features ...

The instanceof[0] operator is typically banned from use in application code and often frowned upon in library implementations.

0 - https://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jls/se7/html/jls-15.htm...

I've never heard of that being banned. It hasn't been banned anywhere i've written Java.

  • Similarly I never been in a company that outright banned c++ language of library features[1]. Turns out that different companies are different.

    [1] I guess you would get some push back at review time if you used auto_ptr.