Proposal: Block Expressions for Java (original) (raw)

Howard Lovatt howard.lovatt at iee.org
Sat Mar 14 02:58:02 PDT 2009

I am with Stephen Colebourne on this one - unfortunately against.

You can achieve the same using blocks for locals, init blocks for instance fields, static init blocks for static fields, and for many super calls a call to a static method can be made. The least desirable of these is for super, a better solution is to allow statements before super. These are more powerful, for example initialising a field with an argument to the constructor (e.g. the outer pointer for an inner class). VM alreadty allows statements before the super.

Sorry, but I am against this.

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