Bootstrap arguments
John Rose
john.r.rose at oracle.com
Thu Aug 25 16:48:22 PDT 2011
That's a good suggestion; thanks. -- John
On Aug 25, 2011, at 11:06 AM, Rémi Forax wrote:
> Hi John, hi all,
> several people (2 actually :) ask me how to use a boolean/byte/short/char
> as a bootstrap argument.
>
> As you know, you can't because you can't encode a constant
> boolean/byte/short/char
> in the constant pool but only an int and because asType() doesn't do
> narrowing primitive conversion.
> I think the doc of the overview of java.lang.invoke can be updated to add
> a line about that.
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