Draft Spec for Second Preview of Flexible Constructor Bodies (JEP 482)

Archie Cobbs archie.cobbs at gmail.com
Sun Jun 9 18:57:11 UTC 2024


On Sun, Jun 9, 2024 at 3:57 AM Stephan Herrmann <stephan.herrmann at berlin.de>
wrote:

> Am 08.06.24 um 00:48 schrieb Archie Cobbs:
> > I think one thing we could do to help lower the confusion level is come
> up with
> > some less ambiguous "enclosing" terminology.
>
> sounds good to me
>
> > The compiler's "NOOUTERTHIS" doesn't help.
>
> I have no idea what "NOOUTERTHIS" means in javac.
>

My apologies, I'm mixing together spec issues and javac issues - which is
probably not appropriate for this particular list.

>From a pure spec point of view, I think things are in reasonably good shape.

What's needed may be some more precision/clarity in the openjdk javac code
(comments, etc.), and of course that documentation should utilize verbiage
defined in the JLS.

But I should save those opinions for compiler-dev :)

-Archie

-- 
Archie L. Cobbs
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