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Must add this comment:

// Do not reformat the braces {}. It breaks the production.

"Java" code (or actually JVM code) that looks like Python would be more this here:

object Permuter:
   private def permute(n: Int, a: Array[Char]) =
      if n == 0 then
         println(String.valueOf(a))
      else
         for i <- Range(0, n+1) do
            permute(n-1, a)
            swap(a, if n % 2 == 0 then i else 0, n)
   private def swap(a: Array[Char], i: Int, j: Int) =
      val saved = a(i)
      a(i) = a(j)
      a(j) = saved

That's Scala, a kind of Python + Haskell for the JVM.

This code wouldn't be useful of course for obvious reasons: The static methods (methods on an object in Scala) are private, so you can't call them from the outside…

Also the Range(0, n+1) expression isn't idiomatic Scala. You would usually use the 0 to n syntax sugar instead. But the Range looks more like Python so I've written it like that.

Beside that, that's anyway not idiomatic Scala as it uses mutable values and imperative loops. Also Array is just the "naked" Java Array, and not a Scala collection, and one does usually not use Array directly. Actually also not in Java!

Writing that above code makes also no sense in general as Scala comes with a permutations method on collections (and Array through extension methods).

But syntactical the code above is pretty close to Python, imho.

is this the "Jason" every web developer seems to be so obsessed over?

True. I should post a selfie.

Brother, get the flamer... the heavy flamer. 

kris…this code is not a [BIG SHOT]

Because Java still doesn't have extension methods…

The singleton code would be awful complex, especially if it needs to be thread safe.

I'm not sure what you mean.

The chars align perfectly in columns, so this isn't a variable with font used for that code.

What's "1TBS"?

Indeed! At the moment someone makes you use some language that requires useless syntax noise like braces and semicolons one starts to cry for help, that's true.