Review request:Updated JDK-8004728 Implement core reflection API for parameter reflection

[Remi Forax]

On 12/22/2012 06:54 AM, Joe Darcy wrote:
> Hello Eric,
>
> A few initial comments.
>
> I'm not convinced a getNumParameters method pulls its weight.  At the 
> very least, the specification should be updated to say whether or not 
> it includes synthetic + "natural" parameters or just natural ones.  
> (Different methods in core reflection indirectly return a synthetic + 
> "natural" count vs a natural count today.)

Hi Joe,
getNumParameters (I prefer the name getParameterCount() BTW) is very 
important for other languages than Java, by example most of the dynamic 
language runtimes use multi-dispatch at the border between their 
languages and Java, so their runtimes group methods with the same arity 
together and being able to do that without calling getParameterTypes() 
is a good idea IMO.

cheers,
Rémi