On Oct 12, 2018, at 12:58 PM, Remi Forax <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.
