DSL for handle binding

[Ola Bini]

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On 2011-03-21 20.45, Charles Oliver Nutter wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 8:40 PM, John Rose <john.r.rose at oracle.com> wrote:
>> Yes, that occurred to me to, at least in this form (which is not very statically checkable):
>>
>> Binder
>>   .from(String.class, "a", Integer.class, "b", Float.class, "c", String.class)
>>   .reorder("c", "c")
>>
>> It's a little harder to imagine unwinding everything to open code when name lookups are involved.
> 
> I've been thinking of ways to blunt the cost of the DSL as well. The
> simplest would be saving the Binder before calling "invoke", since
> from there on it can apply to anything with the same types. Another
> might be having Binder emit code for the MethodHandles calls,
> bypassing the normal logic...but of course now we're talking about
> generating code to generate MH binding sequences :)
Actually, I think that would be a very good idea - I see myself having
to do these operations in ASM output quite a lot (I'm already doing it a
bit actually).

Cheers
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 Ola Bini (http://olabini.com)
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