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microtherion • last Thursday at 10:40 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

I'm not sure what Builder would have to do with default parameters and named arguments.

Builder is extremely useful to pair with a parser, e.g. SAX. The parser parses the input, and the builder then decides what to do with it.

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Kwpolska • last Thursday at 5:11 PM

Here is an example of the Builder pattern that illustrates my point: https://www.baeldung.com/java-builder-pattern#bd-classic-bui...

Let’s remove the category argument and you get this:

    Post post = new Post.Builder()
      .title("Java Builder Pattern")
      .text("Explaining how to implement the Builder Pattern in Java")
      .build();
This builder is a more readable alternative to this:

    Post post = new Post("Java Builder Pattern", "Explaining how to implement the Builder Pattern in Java", null);
But if Java supported named arguments and default values (the default would be null), this could just be:

    Post post = new Post(title: "Java Builder Pattern", text: "Explaining how to implement the Builder Pattern in Java");
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