New JEP: Concise Method Bodies

Kevin Bourrillion kevinb at google.com
Tue Oct 9 19:03:42 UTC 2018


I do like that feature, but, aren't statics the only things that are
*already* easy to make lazy (holder class)?

This pattern should already be evangelized heavily today for anyone with
Java 8 and up.


On Tue, Oct 9, 2018 at 11:50 AM <forax at univ-mlv.fr> wrote:

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> *De: *"Kevin Bourrillion" <kevinb at google.com>
> *À: *"daniel smith" <daniel.smith at oracle.com>
> *Cc: *"Remi Forax" <forax at univ-mlv.fr>, "amber-spec-experts" <
> amber-spec-experts at openjdk.java.net>
> *Envoyé: *Mardi 9 Octobre 2018 20:48:10
> *Objet: *Re: New JEP: Concise Method Bodies
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> On Tue, Oct 9, 2018 at 11:43 AM Dan Smith <daniel.smith at oracle.com> wrote:
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> We have a rich API for building Comparators. I would expect most
>> non-legacy implementations of Comparable to implement their 'compareTo'
>> method by delegating to a Comparator.
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> +100
> To me, this pattern is the strongest use case for the entire feature.
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> We need the lazy static final feature too.
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> Rémi
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Kevin Bourrillion | Java Librarian | Google, Inc. | kevinb at google.com
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