Towards Minimal L World

[Dan Smith]

> On May 18, 2018, at 2:05 PM, Brian Goetz <brian.goetz at oracle.com> wrote:
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>> Thesis:  Value constructors are the same notation as VBC constructors.
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> +1.  I don't think its a good use of our "user model complexity budget" to have a different way to write these guys.  It also facilitates migration.  And "Codes like a class" has a pretty sensible answer for "how do I write a constructor."

A simpler approach, in the spirit of "let's not waste effort on problems we don't know how we're going to solve": you get one implicit constructor, and it's private. You can't declare custom constructors. Write factory methods for your clients.