New candidate JEP: 513: Flexible Constructor Bodies

[Iris Clark]

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

  513: Flexible Constructor Bodies
  https://openjdk.org/jeps/513

    Summary: In the body of a constructor, allow statements to appear
    before an explicit constructor invocation, i.e., super(...) or
    this(...).  Such statements cannot reference the object under
    construction, but they can initialize its fields and perform other safe
    computations.  This change allows many constructors to be expressed
    more naturally.  It also allows fields to be initialized before they
    become visible to other code in the class, such as methods called from
    a superclass constructor, thereby improving safety.

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Thanks,
Iris