[External] : Re: Factory methods & the language model

[Dan Heidinga]

On Thu, Sep 9, 2021 at 5:32 PM Dan Smith <daniel.smith at oracle.com> wrote:
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> On Sep 9, 2021, at 1:13 PM, Dan Heidinga <heidinga at redhat.com> wrote:
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> but to keep the door open to having both factories and
> constructors in identity classes, should we use a different syntax for
> factories in primitive classes now?  That way factories would be
> "spelled" consistently between primitive and identity classes.  Doing
> so diminishes the "codes like a class" story but leaves the door open
> for more compatibility in the future.
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> Enthusiastic +1.
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> I don't really *want* to do that, but if we think that's where we're headed, it is pretty weird that, say, a factory declaration in an Java interface declaration looks completely different from a factory declaration in a Java primitive class declaration. Or maybe both styles of declaration are supported by primitive classes? And does reflection treat them differently, too? Not sure if this leads anywhere good, but I want to do a bit of thinking through the implications...
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Do you want to tackle this on list or wait for the next EG meeting?
If you have a model / syntax in mind, we can start to work through the
implications.  Otherwise, we can all pull out the bikeshed paint....