The goal of this effort is to make nesting of static members more
uniform by eliminating such "gratuitous" restrictions, so this seems
within the spirit.
On 11/17/2020 9:03 AM, Maurizio Cimadamore wrote:
Hi,
now that the work on allowing static members in nested declarations
[1] is wrapping up, I'm wondering if we could add treatment for one
more case: static initializers in interfaces. This seems a case where
the static compiler is already inserting static blocks (to initialize
any static fields an interface might declare), but where the JLS is
currently forbidding interfaces from having an explicit static
initializer block in the source code. This make e.g. initialization of
fields which might throw exceptions (e.g. method handles) not possible
inside interfaces. While I realize this is a corner case, I thought it
would still be worth asking the question :-)
Cheers
Maurizio
[1] - https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/571
