On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 5:15 PM, Fredrik Öhrström < fredrik.ohrst...@oracle.com> wrote:
> What is the purpose of being able to invoke the constructor > through a MethodHandle? The reason I am asking is because > to me, it seems like we cannot perform a new through > a MethodHandle. Which means that we have to generate a > factory method (to which we can bind a MethodHandle) to > create a new instance and then we can just as well put > the call to the constructor there. Or am i missing > something? :-) Isn't findSpecial just using the same semantics as invokespecial? i.e. invoking/finding the method on the exact class instead of doing a virtual dispatch. That is used for other things than only constructors, in Java this is used for super.method(..)-invocations. /Tobias
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