Question About MethodHandles.findSpecial

[John Rose]

On May 6, 2009, at 4:03 AM, Fredrik Öhrström wrote:

> The bytecode verifier also prohibits calling a constructor on an  
> already
> initialized reference. With a MethodHandle to a constructor it would  
> be
> possible violate this restriction. I am not sure this is a good idea.

You're right in being skeptical.  Basically, the only places you can  
use it is where the superclass constructor has already been called.   
Calling a superclass constructor a second time is always just wrong.

We'll yank it, until & unless we find a usage pattern that actually  
makes sense.

Thanks!

-- John