JEP Explained. JEP 482: Flexible Constructor Bodies

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This episode of “JEP Explained” covers JEP 482, about proposed changes to constructors that relaxing rules to make them more flexible. With this proposed change, you can execute statements before calling super() or this() in a constructor and initialize members of a derived class before calling a parent constructor.
In this episode, Mala Gupta, Developer Advocate with JetBrains interviewed Dr. Venkat Subramaniam, a prize winning author, long time professor, Java Champion, and organizer of the Dev2Next conference in Denver.
In this interview, Dr Venkat talks about and demos the issues in your codebase without this change and the benefits of this feature.
Don’t miss the fun sections at the end, where Dr. Venkat tries his luck with tongue twisters, clarifies whether some statements are fact or fiction, and the section when he responds to statements by enacting emojis.

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