A reminder of Project Lambda's scope

[David Goodenough]

On Friday 26 February 2010, Alex Buckley wrote:
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mr/lambda/straw-man/
> 
> Where features in the strawman have made it into the draft spec so far,
> such as function types and lambda conversion, they are fair game for
> discussion.
> 
> There is no need to lobby for mutable up-level variables, method
> references, exception transparency, extension methods, etc, since they
> are all mentioned in the strawman. The draft spec will get round to them
> in good time. Before anyone asks for a schedule, I don't have one.
> 
> Alex
> 
Does this mean that obvious extensions of things, like field references being
a logical extension of method references, can also be considered?

David