FTR: JSR 292 RFEs from yesterday's Indy Support Group

some frameworks need access delegation via MethodHandles.lookup https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8162494 some frameworks want to advise method handle optimization https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8163006 CallSites should support polymorphic inline caches https://bugs.openjdk.java.

Re: FTR: JSR 292 RFEs from yesterday's Indy Support Group

And one more (mention in my BSMs Everywhere segment): general data in constant pools https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8161256 On Aug 2, 2016, at 2:27 PM, John Rose wrote: > > some frameworks need access delegation via MethodHandles.lookup > https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-81624

FTR: good old paper on quasi-quotation

Related to some discussion at the JVMLS about quasi-constants (templates, constants with holes), here is the early history of quasi-quoting in computing, as reported by someone who was there. Alan Bawden, Quasiquotation in Lisp (1999) http://repository.readscheme.org/ftp/papers/pepm99/bawden.pdf