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Thanks I hate it

You hate that it takes 2 lines instead of 4 (excluding curly braces) to accomplish the same? The new syntax is not even convoluted, it's pretty intuitive destructuring syntax already available in many modern languages.

There's potential confusion whether the int x from the example comes from point.x (field), point.x() (method) or point.getX() (common getter pattern), just one more gotcha

By reading the proposal [1], I see it's meant for record types. Records seem to be value classes, i.e. the equivalent to Scala's case classes.

In that case, there's absolutely no ambiguity: there's only one `x` you can be talking about.

By the way, value/case classes are such a boon. Very easy to get used to, and once you have, you want to use them everywhere, I guarantee.

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[1] https://openjdk.org/jeps/440

Thanks that makes more sense, I had assumed it was for all types as Point used in the example has the same name as a class in the standard library

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