[External] : Re: Exploratory proposal: First-class namespace construct for data-oriented / functional Java

[Michał Kłeczek]

> On 25 Feb 2026, at 18:47, Brian Goetz <brian.goetz at oracle.com> wrote:
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> If I felt these were a bigger deal, though, there is a _much_ better solution in evidence for these problems and more: something like Scala's `object` declaration.  This achieves the boilerplate goals through solving some real semantic problems: lifecycle management of singletons, plus elevating static behavior to instance behavior.  (This strengthens statics rather than just doubling down on them.)

Or, IMHO a very interesting direction: metaclasses as described in this excellent paper over 20 years ago by Eric Allen et al.: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1028976.1029008

Kind regards,

—
Michał
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