Non static bootstrap method

[Matthieu Riou]

That answers my question, thanks :) And by the way thanks for all your work
on mlvm.

On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 6:18 PM, John Rose <john.r.rose at oracle.com> wrote:

> This is worth a clarification:  The only meaningful bootstrap methods will
> be static methods and constructors for subclasses of CallSite.  I will add a
> note to the effect into the javadoc.
>
> Using a virtual method of class C as a BSM means that you expect the first
> stacked argument to the BSM to be the receiver, of type C.  Unless you were
> to choose a virtual on MethodHandles.Lookup that will serve your purpose
> (and there is nothing that will return a CallSite), there's no way that any
> of the stacked arguments will act as the method's receiver.
>
> -- John
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