Review request:Updated JDK-8004728 Implement core reflection API for parameter reflection (original) (raw)

Remi Forax forax at univ-mlv.fr
Sat Dec 22 10:11:26 UTC 2012

On 12/22/2012 06:54 AM, Joe Darcy wrote:

Hello Eric,

A few initial comments. I'm not convinced a getNumParameters method pulls its weight. At the very least, the specification should be updated to say whether or not it includes synthetic + "natural" parameters or just natural ones. (Different methods in core reflection indirectly return a synthetic + "natural" count vs a natural count today.)

Hi Joe, getNumParameters (I prefer the name getParameterCount() BTW) is very important for other languages than Java, by example most of the dynamic language runtimes use multi-dispatch at the border between their languages and Java, so their runtimes group methods with the same arity together and being able to do that without calling getParameterTypes() is a good idea IMO.

cheers, Rémi

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