Javac internal error compiling lambdas (original) (raw)

Peter Levart peter.levart at gmail.com
Thu Apr 4 05:28:12 PDT 2013

On 04/04/2013 01:30 AM, Remi Forax wrote:

On 04/04/2013 12:45 AM, Jose wrote:

Remi,

Again hijacking the thread, This is the first time I write something in another’s thread, you can easily check it if you want. And I did so because I’m worry with this issue. My own question (the first thread of this month) got not a replay, just your post asking me for the error message. I hijack the thread :) not you, sorry for the confusion.

there is no need to store a lambda in a static final field Yes, there is, at least in my case. Sometimes I use lambdas to define custom properties that would initialize static fields by reading their values from a file. I do this static initialization at the very beginning, before the constructors of these classes are called. And I need the lambdas for this. Reading a file during a static init is not something you should do. Don't forget that the static init block is executed while holding a lock, and doing IOs in a synchronized block (or something like a synchronized block) is always a bad idea.

And if there is a transient IO failure, you can't even retry it later...

Regards, Peter

Anyway, I’m ready to admit that this approach is heterodox and need to be improved.

But a poor design don’t justifies a javac failure. yes, as I said, I was hijacking your thread. Regards cheers, Rémi

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