----- Mail original ----- > De: "Maurizio Cimadamore" <maurizio.cimadam...@oracle.com> > À: "amber-spec-experts" <amber-spec-experts@openjdk.java.net> > Envoyé: Mardi 17 Novembre 2020 15:03:39 > Objet: [statics] allowing static initializers in interfaces?
> 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 :-) +1 for me, Yes, it's time of heal the rift between a class and an interface, we stop halfway by just adding default methods and later private methods. So currently, there are 3 ad_hoc differences - as you said, no static block, even if you can initialize a static field with an initializer - no private class - no private static field. The last will also requires a change of the JVM spec. > > Cheers > Maurizio cheers, Rémi > > [1] - https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/571
