instance initializer

[John Rose]

On Sep 5, 2019, at 4:47 PM, Vicente Romero <vicente.romero at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> right I was thinking about the case:
> 
> record R(int i, int j) {
>     public R {  // compact constructor
>         if (i < 0) {
>             this.i = -i;
>         } else {
>             this.j = j;
>         }
>     }
> }

Correct me if I’m wrong, but we can cover cases like this by assigning to the component parameters, and let the fields get written automatically:

record R(int i, int j) {
    public R {  // compact constructor
        if (i < 0) {
            i = -i;  // not this.i
        } else {
            j = i+j;  // not this.j
        }
    }
}