On Feb 27, 2019, at 12:58 PM, Brian Goetz <brian.go...@oracle.com> wrote: > > I think the answer to all the objections is "then just use <clinit>".
That's fair. Maybe I was overthinking that part. > Programmers are lazy; we can use this to our advantage. If the users get the > benefit of lazy initialization with one new keyword (lazy-final), they will > likely use it because programmers love to prematurely optimize and sprinkling > "lazy" is easy. The result will be, most <clinits> will empty out, except > for the ones doing weird stuff. Bravo, yes. > (This strategy is analogous to: to lose weight, you need not control what you > eat, you just need to control what food is in your house. And you don't even > have to do anything here other than "don't buy more unhealthy food"; our > natural snacking tendencies will empty out the pantry fast enough, and then > all that's left will be kale soon enough.) You can *DO* that??
