Because not enough Java programmers know about Norvig’s cute trick.
Consider java.awt.Polygon. It’s a nice enough class, but its constructors make it awkward to use directly in a call to java.awt.Graphics.fillPolygon.
Norvig points out that you can create an anonymous class and write an initialiser for it. Like this: «new Polygon() {{addPoint(0,0); addPoint(100,50); addPoint(100,-50);}}». That’s an expression. That means that if we’re drawing on a java.awt.Graphics object g we can go «g.fillPolygon(new Polygon() {{addPoint(0,0); addPoint(100,50); addPoint(100,-50);}});». It saves us from having to declare a very temporary Polygon variable.
Norvig’s example is even more compelling. You can create anonymous literal Vectors just as easily as literal arrays: «new Vector(3) {{add(“one”); add(“two”); add(“three”)}}».
Of course the double curly braces makes it look a bit scary, probably even to experienced Java programmers. But I think I like that.
Don’t even think about doing this in JME. The extra inner class costs at least 400 bytes.
