New Candidate JEP: 482: Flexible Constructor Bodies (Second Preview)

[Iris Clark]

The following JEP with scope "SE" has been moved to the Candidate state:

  482: Flexible Constructor Bodies (Second Preview)
  https://openjdk.org/jeps/482

    Summary: In constructors in the Java programming language, allow
    statements to appear before an explicit constructor invocation, i.e.,
    super(..) or this(..). The statements cannot reference the instance
    under construction, but they can initialize its fields. Initializing
    fields before invoking another constructor makes a class more reliable
    when methods are overridden. This is a preview language feature.

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the JDK Project, but with no commitment to deliver the feature in any
particular release of the JDK Project. Later, the JEP may be moved to the
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    https://openjdk.org/jeps/1

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JDK Project release.

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    https://openjdk.org/projects/jdk/23/spec/

Thanks,
Iris