Method References

[Neal Gafter]

On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 2:45 AM, Rémi Forax <forax at univ-mlv.fr> wrote:

> there is a source compatibility issue if you allow to not specify the type.
>
> class A {
>   void m(String s) { ... }
> }
> ....
> ref = A#m;
>
> Now suppose I want to add a new method m(Integer),
>

Adding a new method to a class is not a source-compatible change today.
 However, it is a binary-compatible change today and both with and without
method references and with or without the proposed method reference argument
inference.