On 06/12/2013 10:35 AM, Behrooz Nobakht wrote:
Thanks for the reply. Just a follow-up question regarding the fact that
method references *do not* have a type:
When a Java 8 method reference is compiled, what is it translated to? Is
there any specific place in the source of Java 8 I can look up to study
this particular question in more details?
There is this document from last year,
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~briangoetz/lambda/lambda-translation.html
It's not fully accurate, but the first half of the doc is not too outdated.
cheers,
Rémi
On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 10:22 AM, Florian Weimer <[email protected]> wrote:
On 06/11/2013 11:50 PM, Behrooz Nobakht wrote:
My question is that how should the method doAnotherThing be declared?
In most cases, it is appropriate to define an interface with a single
method and use it as a parameter type.
Studying the source code of Java 8, I found out that before Java 8 version
b75, there was an abstraction java.util.function.Block which was removed
from further revisions.
There is java.util.function.Function, but it's probably most useful in
abstract contexts where no reasonably named concrete type is available.
On the question in the subject, method references do not have a type.
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Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security Team
