Updated State of the Lambda

[Rémi Forax]

Le 15/10/2010 21:55, Brian Goetz a écrit :
> An updated draft (Version 3) of the State of the Lambda has been published at:
>
>     http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~briangoetz/lambda/lambda-state-3.html
>
> Notable differences from the previous draft include:
>    - 'this' in lambda expressions is lexically scoped
>    - 'yield' keyword dropped in favor of 'return'
>    - new syntax
>
> Maurizio will be pushing an implementation conforming to this draft soon.
>
>
>    

I don't understand why # is infix for method reference.
As you said you need to restrict the receiver form
because a simple expression like #a.b.toString() is ambiguous.

Is there a document explaining the translation proposed into bytecode ?

Rémi