On Sat, 4 Oct 2025 05:36:26 GMT, Chen Liang <[email protected]> wrote:
>> implementation of [1] in valhalla. This means that code like:
>>
>> class Inner7 {
>> private int x;
>>
>> public Inner7(byte y) {
>> x = y; // error can't refer to an instance field before a this()
>> invocation
>> this((int)y);
>> }
>> public Inner7(int x) {
>> this.x = x;
>> super();
>> }
>> }
>>
>>
>> won't be accepted by javac
>> [1] https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8368719
>
> Comment in JDK-8368719 says we don't want error unless JEP 401 is previewed
> and compilation is done with preview enabled. I think what we have (failing
> for pre-this immediately without preview on) is probably better, but we just
> need to make sure Dan or whoever is aware of our decisions.
@liach thanks for the review
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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/valhalla/pull/1659#issuecomment-3369325068
