Wither method references?

[Reinier Zwitserloot]

Are method references still in? i.e. something like:

public static int foo(String a, String b) {
    return a.length() - b.length();
}

public void whatever() {
    Comparator<String> x = #foo;
}



If so, any dislike of '#' is basically a moot point. # will be in java7
anyway.

Then a big disadvantage of BGGA or pretty much any non-strawman syntax is
that it takes out both # and ->, whereas strawman only takes out # for
language features. The fact that lambda is happening at all suggests its
useful to have some unused symbols left over for future features :)


 --Reinier Zwitserloot