[benrhughes]

FWIW, with C#'s object initialisation syntax you can cut that down to once too. eg

  public class Foo
  {
     public string Bar { get; set;}
  }

  var foo = new Foo { Bar = "Hey there" };

[Uchikoma]

I've come to love Scala case classes:

  case class Foo(bar: String, foo: String = "hello")
  new Foo(bar = "Hey there")
  new Foo(foo = "Hey there", bar = "Hello")
  new Foo("Hey there")

[hythloday]

Case classes, I believe, have a companion object with an apply method build for them, so you can get it down to:

  case class Foo(bar: String, foo: String = "hello")
  val f1 = Foo(bar = "Hey there")
  val f2 = Foo(foo = "Hey there", bar = "Hello")
  val f3 = Foo("Hey there")

[Uchikoma]

You're right!