Function types versus arrays

[Neal Gafter]

On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Rémi Forax <forax at univ-mlv.fr> wrote:
> Le 09/02/2010 00:40, Neal Gafter a écrit :
>> On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Joshua Bloch<jjb at google.com>  wrote:
>>> I just assumed that we'd do whatever it takes to make this works, up to and
>>> including VM changes.
>>>
>> I'd love to hear ideas about how to make it work.  The only way I know
>> to make it work would be to reify generics.  Other than that, and
>> absent any well founded ideas, there isn't anything to do.
>
> Or choose to use method handles :)
>
> In that case, the rules are the same as the ones for generics.
> The common supertype of all function types is java.dyn.MethodHandle
> - you can't create an array of function types

In other words, make it work by not making it work?  I don't get it.
You're joking?