JDK 8 code review request for 8005298 Add FunctionalInterface type to the core libraries

[Remi Forax]

On 01/16/2013 11:25 PM, Peter Levart wrote:
>
> On 01/16/2013 05:58 PM, Joe Darcy wrote:
>> On 1/16/2013 8:32 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
>>> On 01/16/2013 05:27 PM, Brian Goetz wrote:
>>>
>>>> The primary purpose of this annotation is to *capture design 
>>>> intent*.  It is not required.  The compiler will help you enforce 
>>>> the design intent if you provide it.  The compiler will not 
>>>> synthesize this annotation, since that would be guessing at the 
>>>> design intent.  It is possible to create classfiles that subvert 
>>>> the design intent.
>>>>
>>>> The point about other languages was simply to point out that the 
>>>> universe of tools that might usefully use this design intent is 
>>>> bigger than sometimes assumed.
>>>
>>> I don't think run-time behavior should depend on optional 
>>> annotations documenting design intent (like @Override).
>>>
>>> Supporting the discovery of functional interfaces is a good idea. 
>>> But a method like Class#isFunctionalInterface() would sever this 
>>> purpose better than an entirely optional annotation.
>>>
>>
>> A method like Class#isFunctionalInterface is planned too for later in 
>> JDK 8.
> I can imagine that a method like that would be useful if also 
> accompanied with a method like:
>
> Class#getFunctionalInterfaceMethod()

this method may not exist.

>
> Regards, Peter
>
>>
>> -Joe
>

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