PROPOSAL: Method and Field Literals

[Neal Gafter]

On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Rémi Forax <forax at univ-mlv.fr> wrote:
> Neal,
> I don't know if you will regret saying this but
> I will regret to not saying that  it will create lot of puzzlers like this
> one:
>
> class A {
>  static int f(int) { ... }
> }
> ...
> {int => int} c=A#f(int);
> A#f(int).equals(c)             // false because A#f(int) is a
> java.lang.reflect.Method

It's hard for me to imagine how to turn this into a "real" puzzler
rather than just a curiosity.  How do you imagine a programmer could
get "bitten" by this?