> In Java, you'd implement this by making a class with a private constructor, no mutator methods, and a static factory method that throws an exception if the parsing fails.
This is similar, and is indeed quite useful in many cases, but it’s not quite the same. I explained why in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35059886 (The comment is talking about TypeScript, but really everything there also applies to Java.)
This is similar, and is indeed quite useful in many cases, but it’s not quite the same. I explained why in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35059886 (The comment is talking about TypeScript, but really everything there also applies to Java.)