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		delusional 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Java 25 officially released Especially because you were always able to bypass it by declaring a `static` function and calling that as part of the parameters to `super`: public Foo(int x) { super(validate(x)); } validate would run before super, even though super was technically the first statement in the constructor, and the compiler was happy.

mystifyingpoi 4 months ago [–]

This is such a funny workaround, I like that. But it doesn't matter in any library or your own code, since factory methods are much better (simply because they have names).

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