JEP118

[Alex Buckley]

Parameter names are opt-in for the reasons given at the start of chapter 
2 in the 8misc.pdf file.

Alex

On 5/31/2013 1:03 AM, Boaz Nahum wrote:
> -parameter solved my problem
>
> I wonder why it is not the default, line nay other meta data ? Is it
> performance/footprint issue ?
>
> Many thanks
> Boaz
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>
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> On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 6:48 PM, Alex Buckley <alex.buckley at oracle.com
> <mailto:alex.buckley at oracle.com>> wrote:
>
>     The fact that you have java.lang.reflect.Parameter at all means that
>     JEP 118 is implemented :-)
>
>     A parameter name of the form argX indicates that either there is no
>     parameter metadata available (i.e. no MethodParameters attribute in
>     the class file) or there is parameter metadata but this parameter
>     explicitly has no name. See section 2.3 of
>     http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~__abuckley/8misc.pdf
>     <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~abuckley/8misc.pdf> for more.
>
>     Alex
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>
>     On 5/30/2013 2:31 AM, Boaz Nahum wrote:
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>         I'm building java from lambda/lambda repository
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>         I'm wonder if JEP118 is already there, when I use:
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>
>         Method m ...
>         Parameter[] p = m.getParameters();
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>         Then p[X].getName() just produces "argX"
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>         Or maybe I'm doing wrong ?
>
>         Thank
>
>         Boaz
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>