PROPOSAL: Method and Field Literals (original) (raw)

Mark Mahieu markmahieu at googlemail.com
Thu Mar 12 14:01:36 PDT 2009

On 12 Mar 2009, at 20:55, Rémi Forax wrote:

Neal Gafter a écrit :

I may regret saying this later, but I am not concerned about the potential conflict. I believe we can use the exact same syntax and distinguish whether it should be a java.lang.reflect.Method or a closure from context. Since we're doing Method first, it would take priority (just like a method invocation that requires no boxing is preferred during overload resolution to one that requires some argument to be boxed).

Neal, I don't know if you will regret saying this but I will regret to not saying that it will create lot of puzzlers like this one: class A { static int f(int) { ... } } ... {int => int} c=A#f(int); A#f(int).equals(c) // false because A#f(int) is a java.lang.reflect.Method Rémi

I expect that would rather depend on how closure equality is defined
(or not).

Mark

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