For Coin 8: this keyword for static methods

Vimil Saju vimilsaju at yahoo.com
Tue Feb 22 09:47:31 PST 2011


Hi,

 It would be nice to have a 'this'
 keyword for static methods. For static methods 'this' refers
 to the class in which the static method is defined.
 
 In our code-base we have a lot of places where we
 initialize a logger for a class as follows

 public class MyApp {
    static Logger logger = Logger.getLogger(MyApp.class);
    ...
    ...

If we could refer to MyApp using the keyword 'this' then when copying this code to other classes there wouldn't be a need to remember to change the class passed to the getLogger method.

Thanks
Vimil


      



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