Proposal: Block Expressions for Java

[Howard Lovatt]

I am with Stephen Colebourne on this one - unfortunately against.

You can achieve the same using blocks for locals, init blocks for instance
fields, static init blocks for static fields, and for many super calls a
call to a static method can be made. The least desirable of these is for
super, a better solution is to allow statements before super. These are more
powerful, for example initialising a field with an argument to the
constructor (e.g. the outer pointer for an inner class). VM alreadty allows
statements before the super.

Sorry, but I am against this.