New candidate JEP: 429: Extent-Local Variables (Incubator)

[Andrew Haley]

On 8/28/22 17:24, Zheka Kozlov wrote:
> Just out of curiosity: why was a static where() method chosen? An instance
> method seems more natural:
> 
> PRINCIPAL.where(principal).run(...)
> vs.
> ExtentLocal.where(PRINCIPAL, principal).run()

It doesn't chain so nicely.

Consider

    PRINCIPAL.where(principal).also(PRINCIPAL2.where(principal2)).run(...)

or

    PRINCIPAL.where(principal).also(PRINCIPAL2,principal2).run(...)

or something.

> Also, a couple of notes regarding Javadoc:
> 
>     1. Two methods runWithBinding() and callWithBinding() are mentioned in
>     the description. But ExtentLocal doesn't have such methods. It only has
>     three overloads of where().
>     2. The code example doesn't use a code snippet. It uses the old HTML
>     formatting.

Where is this?

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