Lambda class names no longer reported when listening for JVMTI_EVENT_CLASS_FILE_LOAD events

[Brian Goetz]

Completely different kind of "anonymous class."  This is a class whose name is not entered into the system dictionary.  Gets us exactly 0% of the way there to the feature you're asking for.  

On Jan 23, 2014, at 5:22 PM, Mark Derricutt wrote:

> Brian,
> 
> Woah - so the JVM/java now has anonymous classes?  Could this be exploited for a form of type-safe "multiple return values/tuples" similar to what C# offers? Similar to whats shown in http://stackoverflow.com/a/11795087 ?
> 
> If that was exposed with similar syntax in JDK9 that would be awesome.  Would play nice with Streams, lambdas and more....
> 
> Mark
> 
> 
> On 23 Jan 2014, at 12:48, Brian Goetz wrote:
> 
>> Yes.  We moved to "anonymous classes" (in the sense of Unsafe.defineAnonymousClass, not anonymous inner classes), for reasons of both security and performance.  This is an unfortunate side effect.