PROPOSAL: Auto-assignment Parameters

[Mark Mahieu]

Hi James,

I looked into inferring the parameter types, and while it does work  
quite well for 'brain-dead' POJO classes, it was not so great when  
you actually want to put some real code in the constructor, for  
example to throw an exception if a parameter value is not valid.

The auto-assignment proposal is very much aimed at helping  
programmers with code they actually have to *write* (and therefore  
read and maintain), rather than just generate.  If it happens to help  
with the latter as well, that's great.

Mark


On 25 Mar 2009, at 13:41, james lowden wrote:

>
> I'd like to see both.  Auto-getters/setters/equals/etc. would be  
> really, really nice, but it would also be valuable to have a way of  
> specifying a variety of different constructors to generate, which  
> Mark's proposal would allow for.  Example:
>
> public data class Foo {
>       private final int x;
>       private final int y;
>       private final String foo;
>
>       public Foo (this.x) {}
>
>       public Foo (this.foo, this.y) {}
> }
>
>
> (I eliminated the types from the automagical constructors, as they  
> can be inferred by the compiler.)