oops, it the reply button too soon. Rémi
>> De: "John Rose" <john.r.r...@oracle.com> >> À: "Remi Forax" <fo...@univ-mlv.fr> >> Cc: "Brian Goetz" <brian.go...@oracle.com>, "amber-spec-experts" >> <amber-spec-experts@openjdk.java.net> >> Envoyé: Samedi 13 Octobre 2018 07:00:09 >> Objet: Re: `this` in concise method bodies >> On Oct 12, 2018, at 12:58 PM, Remi Forax < [ mailto:fo...@univ-mlv.fr | >> fo...@univ-mlv.fr ] > wrote: >>> 1) They are few methods that can be converted to concise methods because the >>> implementation has to be a one liner, >>> 2) They are very few methods that can be converted to a concise methods that >>> that use the :: syntax because it only works if the implementation >>> delegates to >>> a method that uses all the parameters in the same order, >>> 3) They are very very few methods that can be converted to a concise methods >>> that use the :: and use 'this' explicitly as first parameter. >>> so before descending into the rabbit hole, i think not me|someone should >>> check >>> how many methods can be converted to use the :: + this syntax in big corpus >>> of >>> Java codes. >> This is probably true, because Java programmers have limited tools >> for software reuse: Inheritance and explicit subroutine calls. If they >> had the ability to connect methods directly using CMBs, the source >> base would look different. There would be less cut-and-paste. A true >> mechanical analysis of the applicability of CMBs to connect methods >> would have to disregard lots of hand-crafted of method calls, and >> unwind uses of inheritance where delegation (had it been available >> at the time) would have been a better choice.
