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JEP Draft: Strict Field Initialization in the JVM

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Wow, this looks archaic and ugly.n is the next generation of Java marching towards C++ or what?

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The proposed syntax appears to put no effort into helping make the code readable or intuitive, why is that?

> For example, given the following classes (styled as Java code for readability)

I believe this implies it's not meant to actually be written in this way by Java developers.

Then how will it be written?