Syntax for method references

[Brian Goetz]

It is perfect, until you realize it is unworkable; you need room for generic type arguments on both sides:

  foo-><T>bar

or

  foo<T>->bar

At which point you give up on that approach.  



On Oct 26, 2011, at 12:39 PM, Serge Boulay wrote:

> I liked the syntax shown at the 2011 JVM language summit
> 
> Predicate<> p = String->isEmpty
> 
> http://www.wiki.jvmlangsummit.com/images/a/a1/2011_Goetz_Extension_Slides.pdf
> 
> On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 3:17 PM, Bob Foster <bobfoster at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, 25 Oct 2011 15:01:21 -0700 (whew!) Brian Goetz wrote:
>> 
>> Oh, good. The dreaded :: from C++. :)
>> 
>> Bob
>> 
>>> This is the current front-runner.
>> 
>>> On Oct 25, 2011, at 9:26 AM, Stephen Colebourne wrote:
>>>> Is this now decided? Or just an experiment?
>>>> 
>> http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-ldn3/index.html?ca=drs-
>>>> 
>>>> Collections.sortBy(people, Person::getLastName);
>>>> people.sortBy(Person::getLastName);
>>>> 
>>>> Stephen
>>>> 
>> 
>> 
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