Assignment to this.

One thing I have always wished Java would support is assignment to the 
"this" variable. It is understandable that this could be hard to 
implement. However it could be useful:

class foo{}
new foo(Bar b)
{
    if( isEvil( b ) )
    {
       this = null;
       return;
    }
}

In this case the ability to explicitly return an object from a 
constructor would serve much the same function, however it would have 
the disadvantage that it could not be used in an arbitrary method. 
Though might cause less confusion for multithreaded apps.
Thoughts?


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