RFE: No this qualifier needed for method references

Brian Goetz brian.goetz at oracle.com
Thu Jan 13 21:06:29 PST 2011


This is the current plan.

On 1/13/2011 11:55 PM, Howard Lovatt wrote:
> To obtain a method reference for an instance method you need to write:
>
>    instance#methodName( argTypes )
>
> If the instance is this, then:
>
>    this#methodName( argTypes )
>
> It would be nice and more consistent with Javadoc, in particular, if
> you could say:
>
>    #methodName( argTypes )
>
> IE this is implied (or the default if you prefer).
>
>    -- Howard.
>


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