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    <font size="4"><font face="monospace">This is coming together
        nicely!<br>
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        Good catch on "can't have a return"; the precise way to state
        this is "statements that can complete abruptly for reasons X, Y
        and Z" (see JLS 14.1).  <br>
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        The static context applies not only to the BlockStatements
        prior, but also the ExplicitCtorInvocation.  <br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 1/27/2023 3:52 PM, Archie Cobbs
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        <div dir="ltr">On Fri, Jan 27, 2023 at 12:16 PM Archie Cobbs
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            <div dir="ltr">On Thu, Jan 26, 2023 at 5:51 PM Brian Goetz
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                  <div> <font size="4"><font face="monospace">I think
                        that's where we should start; if we are
                        spectacularly successful, we can come back for
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                <div>OK thanks. Proceeding...<br>
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          <div>JEP is <a href="https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8300786" moz-do-not-send="true">updated</a>. Not surprisingly, it
            has gotten a good bit simpler.</div>
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              <div>Change log...<br>
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              - Removed discussions of 'this' escape, try { } blocks and
              initialization order</div>
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              <div class="gmail_quote">- Removed if/then example
                choosing between two different superclass constructors</div>
              - Restate JLS changes</div>
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          <div>The updated JLS changes are:<br>
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          <div style="margin-left:40px">1. Change the grammar for
            `ConstructorBody` to:<br>
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          <div style="margin-left:40px"><span style="font-family:monospace">    ConstructorBody:</span><br>
            <span style="font-family:monospace">        {
              [BlockStatements] } ;</span><br>
            <span style="font-family:monospace">        {
              [BlockStatements] ExplicitConstructorInvocation
              [BlockStatements] } ;</span><br>
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            2. Specify that the <span style="font-family:monospace">BlockStatements</span>
            prior to <span style="font-family:monospace">ExplicitConstructorInvocation</span>
            are in a static context (ยง8.1.3)<br>
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        <div>Reload & resume firing... :)<br>
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        <div>-Archie<br>
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        -- <br>
        <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature">Archie L. Cobbs<br>
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