Compiling call to 'for' method can fail

[Mark Mahieu]

I guess this is likely to be a known 'to do' item, but just in case  
it isn't...

It seems that compiling a call to a method declared with the 'for'  
modifier only succeeds if that method is being compiled at the same  
time.  For example, given these two source files:


// foo/ForCaller.java

package foo;
import static foo.ForEver.*;

class ForCaller {
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		for ever() {}
	}
}


// foo/ForEver.java

package foo;

class ForEver {
	static for void ever({==>void} block) {}
}


Then this succeeds:

$ rm foo/*.class
$ $BGGA_HOME/bin/javac foo/ForCaller.java
$


But this doesn't:

$ rm foo/*.class
$ $BGGA_HOME/bin/javac foo/ForEver.java
$ $BGGA_HOME/bin/javac foo/ForCaller.java
foo/ForCaller.java:7: for may only be used on an invocation if the  
method was declared with the 'for' modifier
                 for ever() {}
                     ^
1 error
$


Regards,

Mark