On Oct 12, 2018, at 9:47 PM, John Rose <john.r.r...@oracle.com> wrote: > > Delegate
P.S. In the prehistory of Java there were serious proposals to support delegation of an object's method to some "friend" (a field). I think Ken Arnold was the proponent, and I also think at least some of the original JLS authors took it seriously. But it was too much language change for just one software reuse pattern, even a venerable one. The CMB proposal seems to fulfills this old RFE completely, and does much more besides, since it handles Concepts and Prototypes also.
