New candidate JEP: 445: Flexible Main Methods and Anonymous Main Classes (Preview)

[Brian Goetz]

See “Can’t we go further?” In https://openjdk.org/projects/amber/design-notes/on-ramp



On Apr 12, 2023, at 4:47 PM, Eric Bresie <ebresie at gmail.com<mailto:ebresie at gmail.com>> wrote:

If I’m missing something sorry up front but…

Wouldn’t the simplest for beginners be just a java file with the initial expression leaving off the main all together?

Say

(1)
System.out.println(“Hello World”);

(2)  There exists the static initialization block alternatively

static {
  System.out.println(“Hello World”);
}

(3) Or even some sort of annotation or meta data file as to where to start?

(4) Or some lambda derivative like

()-> System.out.println(“Hello World”);

Eric Bresie
Ebresie at gmail.com<mailto:Ebresie at gmail.com>

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