Curious about static method references

[Brian Goetz]

Can you clarify your question?  I could imagine a lot of interpretations of "what gives" in this context.

On Jun 28, 2012, at 4:15 PM, Paulo Levi wrote:

> Hi lambda designers.
> 
> 
> The state of the lambda seems to imply that lambdas are going to be pure
> call-site constructs:
> "Contexts for target typing
> 
> We stated earlier that lambda expressions can only appear in contexts that
> have target types. So, what contexts have target types?
> 
>  - Variable declarations
>  - Assignments
>  - Return statements
>  - Array initializers
>  - Method or constructor arguments
>  - Lambda expression bodies
>  - Conditional expressions ?:
>  - Cast expressions"
> 
> And that the function argument where you'd like to use a lambda itself will
> need to accept a 'functional interface'
> 
> However, interfaces can't have static methods...
> 
> What gives?
>