On 5/8/2018 1:50 PM, Maurizio Cimadamore wrote:
The [Type, Method, Field]Descriptor API looks neat - I have two
comments on this:
* I believe the name descriptor is going to be confusing with the rest
of the API, as there are a lot of classes whose name ends with 'Desc'
Then perhaps these types belong somewhere else besides jlic?
* we discussed internally to sprinkle parameters on
java/lang/reflect/Member (e.g. have a type parameter T <:
TypeDescriptor<T>, and have a method type() which returns a T). That
way we could have Member to be a full live representation of a
reflective member, including access to owner (a Class<?>), name
(String) and, finally, a type (some TypeDescriptor T).
Yes, this patch doesn't yet do this but we can certainly go there once
we have agreement on the approach.
