Implementing recursive lambda with MethodHandle

[John Nilsson]

On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 12:03 PM, Alex Blewitt <alex.blewitt at gmail.com>wrote:

> We could create a new keyword, like 'lambda', which acts as the self-lambda
> reference, but it seems a lot of work rather than just re-targeting 'this'
> to refer to the enclosing lambda scope, and allowing Outer.this to refer to
> the enclosing class instance.
>

Has it been decided that lambdas will be instances of Object? To me it seems
that a lambda is fundamentally different from an object which in it self
could warrant a different keyword than this. I'd vote for . (period) being
that keyword.

#int(int) lambda = .;


This could also be extended to a nice symetric syntax for lifting methods to
lambda-references.

#int(int) lambda = SomeClass.someStaticMethod;

or

#int(int) lambda = .someMethodInScope;

BR,
John