JEP proposed to target JDK 24: 492: Flexible Constructor Bodies (Third Preview)

[Mark Reinhold]

2024/11/7 11:53:45 -0500, mark.reinhold at oracle.com:
> The following JEP is proposed to target JDK 24:
> 
>   492: Flexible Constructor Bodies (Third Preview)
>        https://openjdk.org/jeps/492
> 
>   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.
> 
> Feedback on this proposal from JDK Project Committers and Reviewers [1]
> is more than welcome, as are reasoned objections.  If no such objections
> are raised by 20:00 UTC on Thursday, 14 November, or if they’re raised
> and then satisfactorily answered, then per the JEP 2.0 process proposal
> [2] I’ll target this JEP to JDK 24.

Hearing no objections, I’ve targeted this JEP to JDK 24.

- Mark