JDK 8 and properties

[Rich Midwinter]

You wouldn't need dot notation just to have generated getters/setters
though. http://projectlombok.org/features/GetterSetter.html

Personally, I have no need for dot notation but do use lombok's @Data
frequently (even as a mostly server side guy). I'd have a slight preference
for having a similar solution ship with Java.

Rich.


On 5 October 2011 17:11, Paul Benedict <pbenedict at apache.org> wrote:

> Here's my opinion... Properties brings its own issues. Part of Java's
> success is the readability of the language. If the dot notation is
> used for properties, readability diminishes because it is no longer
> apparent whether field access or method access is occuring.
>
> someObject.x = 1; // method call or field access?
>
> If another syntax is used, then I think it almost defeats the purpose
> of the proposal in the first place; it also begs the question how is
> that any "better" than simply calling the getter/setter directly.
>
> Paul
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 11:05 AM, Loic Descotte <loic.descotte at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > About Alex Miller answer,
> >
> > The consensus was not there at the beggining for lambdas, but it worked
> > (even if it was hard, I admit)
> >
> > For the second point, I work on server side but properties are important
> to
> > me :)
> > And a lot of people I know feel the same.
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 5:26 PM, Mark Thornton <mthornton at optrak.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> On 05/10/11 16:15, Loic Descotte wrote:
> >> > Hi all,
> >> >
> >> > I was wondering if coin 2 (in JDK 8) would possibly include a
> >> "properties"
> >> > feature, to avoid writing getters and setters for all fields in our
> >> classes.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> The second answer (from Alex Miller) probably still applies
> >>
> >>
> >>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/710266/why-will-there-be-no-native-properties-in-java-7
> >>
> >> Mark Thornton
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
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