Request for reviews (M): 6939134: JSR 292 adjustments to method handle invocation

[John Rose]

On Mar 31, 2010, at 6:02 PM, Neal Gafter wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 5:33 PM, John Rose <john.r.rose at oracle.com> wrote:
>> To speak to your continued objection:  This language extension (signature polymorphism of specific methods) is necessary to any programmer who (like me) implements dynamic languages using JSR 292, and uses the JVM's systems programming language.  Since that language is Java, that makes me (in that role) a Java programmer who gets benefit from those language features.
> Those dynamic languages, which support features not available in Java, should be self-bootstrapped or built using the JVM's own instruction set.

That is the high road for implementing a language, but it is not the usual road, and it would not be customer-friendly to impose it on those who build dynamic languages on the JVM.

-- John