MethodHandles.dropArgument()

John Rose John.Rose at Sun.COM
Wed Oct 1 16:51:53 PDT 2008


On Oct 1, 2008, at 4:41 PM, Rémi Forax wrote:

> I drop an argument but in term of signature, i add a new parameter  
> type.

The joys of contravariance.  The MHs API takes a certain directional  
point of view which could be consistently reversed, but I think  
either choice would have led to confusion.  Sometimes reasoning about  
it feels like writing in a mirror.

-- John
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