New candidate JEP: 495: Simple Source Files and Instance Main Methods (Fourth Preview)

[Eirik Bjørsnøs]

On Fri, Nov 15, 2024 at 12:13 AM Brian Goetz <brian.goetz at oracle.com> wrote:

> As you know, naming things is one of the hardest problems in computer
> science.
>

It's not a simple problem, for sure ;-)


>   Rest assured that the point you made about implicit classes was well
> understood and represented in the discussion.  In the end, especially given
> the audience for this feature, the simplicity of "simple" won over the
> explicitness of "implicit".
>

Thanks for detailing this, that's good to know. I guess we enter
discussions like these with all our previous experiences in mind. I have
been in too many situations where seemingly attractive adjectives like
"simple" have been used to gloss over a problem which in hindsight should
have been tackled head first instead. Good to know that's not the case here.

Have a great weekend, may it be a simple one! :)

Eirik.
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