Virtual extension methods -- a strawman design

[Joe Darcy]

Rémi Forax wrote:
> Le 15/05/2010 01:16, Brian Goetz a écrit :
>   
>> The attached document reflects our current thinking in the area of 
>> extension methods, which was introduced in section 8 of the Strawman 
>> proposal.  This document (arguably) improves on the static extension 
>> method scheme presented there.
>>
>> Comments on the technical merits and flaws of the scheme are welcome 
>> (there are lots of details to be fleshed out, of course.)  Comparisons 
>> to the previous (static) extension method scheme outlined in the 
>> strawman are also fair game.
>>
>> Comments to the effect of "I like XYZ other scheme better" are not.  
>> (Where XYZ could be use-site extension methods, traits, mixins, etc.  
>> Those have already been considered and rejected as viable approaches 
>> for Project Lambda.)
>>     
>
> Hi Brian,
> It's good to know that your are working on lambdas.
>
> It seems that your attachment was crunched by the mailing list cerberus.
>
> Rémi
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>
>   

I've posted Brian's document at
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~darcy/DefenderMethods.pdf

-Joe