Nir,
Thanks for setting this up; but being realistic, I don't see this going
anywhere.
The main problem is that it is not well-enough defined. Ask any one person
and they may be able to give a well-defined answer, but they may not all
be the same answer.
For example, builders tend to be separ
Hi again,
The activity on the post has more or less stopped. You can read what people
wrote (the points of a comment indicates the amount of people who agree
with it give or take). I found it an interesting read.
To summarize, the majority prefer a JavaDoc comment tag and that the
factory and bui
Iv'e created a Reddit post [1] if you would like to add anything. I can
monitor it and when activity ceases I can bring it to your attention to
draw conclusions.
[1]
https://www.reddit.com/r/java/comments/9la6vj/opinions_request_would_you_like_to_see_factory/
On Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 9:45 PM Jonath
Nir,
The level of interest could be interesting. I do note that there is
more of a trend in
Java API design these days to use factory methods, e.g. the ".of(...)"
pattern so that
would lend weight to such a feature.
That being said, it would then come down to the level of design and
impleme
Hi Jon,
Thanks for the info.
If I bring it up on the Java subreddit and see what people say, would it
count as a measure for interest? How is "sufficient interest" evaluated,
more or less?
- Nir
On Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 2:27 AM Jonathan Gibbons
wrote:
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On 10/02/2018 06:54 AM, Nir Lisker wrote:
Hi,
Many static methods are used to obtain an instance of a class,
functioning as a de-facto constructor and sometimes replacing it
altogether. These are factory or builder methods and the like.
The problem is that while they function as constructo
