`this` in concise method bodies

[John Rose]

On Oct 12, 2018, at 12:58 PM, Remi Forax <forax at univ-mlv.fr> wrote:
> 
> 1) They are few methods that can be converted to concise methods because the implementation has to be a one liner,
> 2) They are very few methods that can be converted to a concise methods that that use the :: syntax because it only works if the implementation delegates to a method that uses all the parameters in the same order,
> 3) They are very very few methods that can be converted to a concise methods that use the :: and use 'this' explicitly as first parameter.
> 
> so before descending into the rabbit hole, i think not me|someone should check how many methods can be converted to use the :: + this syntax in big corpus of Java codes. 
> 

This is probably true, because Java programmers have limited tools
for software reuse:  Inheritance and explicit subroutine calls.  If they
had the ability to connect methods directly using CMBs, the source
base would look different.  There would be less cut-and-paste.  A true
mechanical analysis of the applicability of CMBs to connect methods
would have to disregard lots of hand-crafted of method calls, and
unwind uses of inheritance where delegation (had it been available
at the time) would have been a better choice.


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