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Oh, right—thanks for this correction.
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<div>On May 15, 2023, at 4:41 PM, Archie Cobbs <archie.cobbs@gmail.com> wrote:</div>
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<div dir="ltr">On Mon, May 15, 2023 at 3:00 PM Guy Steele <<a href="mailto:guy.steele@oracle.com">guy.steele@oracle.com</a>> wrote:
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<div>12.5 In the list of six steps for processing a constructor, the logic is a bit difficult to follow because of nonparallelism, recapitulation, and a mixture of explicit “goto” instructions with drop-through. I suggest this refactored structure:</div>
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<div>That's a nice cleanup - thanks.<br>
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<div>It looks like step 4 is redundant:<br>
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<div>1. Assign the arguments for the constructor to newly created parameter variables for this constructor invocation.
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<div>2. If this constructor does not contain an explicit constructor invocation (8.8.7.1), go to step 4; otherwise, continue with step 3.</div>
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<div>3. Execute the BlockStatements, if any, of the prologue of the constructor body. If execution of any statement completes abruptly, then execution of the constructor completes abruptly for the same reason; otherwise, continue with step 4.</div>
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<div>4. If this constructor does not contain an explicit constructor invocation (8.8.7.1), go to step 6; otherwise, continue with step 5.</div>
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<div>So step 4 can be removed, and step 2 can "goto step 6" (of course once step 4 is removed, steps 5+ get renumbered so that change ultimately becomes "goto step 5").<br>
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<div>-Archie<br>
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