On Sat, 4 Oct 2025 02:40:02 GMT, Vicente Romero <[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.
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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/valhalla/pull/1659#issuecomment-3367924462
