----- Mail original -----
> De: "Brian Goetz" <brian.go...@oracle.com>
> À: "Remi Forax" <fo...@univ-mlv.fr>
> Cc: "amber-spec-experts" <amber-spec-experts@openjdk.java.net>
> Envoyé: Mardi 11 Juin 2019 23:29:51
> Objet: Re: Towards better serialization
[...]
>
>> And nitpicking, can we agree that in a pattern the parameters act more as
>> return
>> values than as parameters, so instead of writing
>> public pattern serializeMe(String serverName) {
>> serverName = conn.getName();
>> }
>> I prefer
>> public pattern (String serverName) serializeMe {
>> return (conn.getName());
>> }
>
> OMG, are you seriously going to bikeshed the syntax of a *different
> feature* here? Really? Really?
>
> (And no, we cannot agree that.)
i will not respond to the bikeshedding bait,
i'm taking about the semantics here and like you i'm using a Java like syntax
to explain my point,
this is an extractor, it's a method that extracts information from an instance,
it's not a method parameterized by that information.
Rémi
