Can not call a private method, no idea why ?

[Anna Kozlova]

Hi Remi,

type of  `map.apply(null)` is capture of `? extends IOBug` and thus it has
no access to private methods of IOBug. Do I miss something?

Thanks,
Anna

On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 9:34 AM Remi Forax <forax at univ-mlv.fr> wrote:

> The following code doesn't compile.
> No idea why ?
>
> public interface IOBug {
>   private IOBug foo() {
>     return this;
>   }
>
>   default IOBug flatMap(Function<? super Object, ? extends IOBug> map) {
>     return map.apply(null).foo();
>                            ^------
>   }
> }
>
> It works if foo is declared as a default method instead of a private
> method.
>
> regards,
> Rémi
>
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