Constructor references

[Collin Fagan]

+1,  Constructor references can turn a constructor into a factory which is a
very handy tool to have. It could also remove the need in may cases to use
reflection.

Collin

On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 6:37 PM, Stephen Colebourne <scolebourne at joda.org>wrote:

> The latest SotL document does not mention constructor references. A
> constructor is no more than a special kind of method. Omitting it from
> JDK 7 would, I suspect, be an annoyance to developers.
>
> The obvious syntaxes are:
>
>  Person#()
>  Person#(String, int)
>
> or
>
>  Person#<init>()
>  Person#<init>(String, int)
>
> Has any consideration been given to constructor references?
>
> Stephen
>
>