Data Oriented Programming, Beyond Records

[Ganapathi Vara Prasad]

Corrected Brian's email address.

On Wed, 14 Jan, 2026, 8:55 am Ganapathi Vara Prasad, <
ganapathibasamsetti at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Brian,
>
> Thank you for thinking on this feature. I want to better understand the
> thought process behind marking all fields that are part of the component
> state instead of only the derived fields. Something like this:
>
> ```
>
> class Point(int x, int y) {
>      private final int x;
>      private final int y;
>      private final derived double norm;
>
>      Point {
>          norm = Math.hypot(x, y);
>      }
>
>      public double norm() { return norm; }
>
>      // derived implementation of x and y accessors
>      // derived implementation of equals, hashCode, toString
> }
> ```
>
>
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