Not Dead Yet (was: MethodHandle vs function types)

[Neal Gafter]

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 1:53 PM, Howard Lovatt <howard.lovatt at gmail.com>wrote:

> Neal Gafter Said
> > Approach (1) doesn't work for various reasons.  As we've already seen by
> the
> > failure of Howard Lovatt's attempt to reify function types, we must
> preserve
> > reference identity for all widening reference conversions.
>
> I would say this is overstating the problems. ...  I am still considering
> other
> options.
>
>
> Therefore I would say, with apologies to Monty Python, that reified
> lambdas are "not dead yet".
>

Would you say they're dead now that you've had a month to study the problem?