r/java • u/Purple_Pie4589 • 14h ago
Concise method bodies arrived
https://github.com/verhasi/java-compositionMore than 8 years ago was drafted the idea of concise method bodies. As I am not a contributor of the openJDK project I took a different approach but implemented. It is publicly available at the maven central both as a library and as a maven plugin. It is a source code preprocessor that converts the concise syntax to java 8 compatible source code. It does not want to be a replacement of the future implementation in the openJDK. Which is more than the openJDK promises is that supports from Java version 8, 11, 17, 21 up to 25 as well. Of course it is free and open source :). It is only the first building block for concise composition.
As far as I have seen this topic was awaited for a long time at
It's been 8 years since the draft for Concise Method Bodies
What happened to Concise Method Bodies?
JEP draft: Concise Method Bodies
Five years have passed, still in draft: Concise Method Bodies
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u/piesou 11h ago
I still can't get over picking "final var" over "val"