Public Review

[John Rose]

On Mar 23, 2011, at 12:10 AM, Howard Lovatt wrote:

>>> 3. Description of MethodHandles.dropArguments(..., List<Class>) and
>>> Description of MethodHandles.dropArguments(..., Class...) interchanged
>> 
>> I can't find this bug; I double-checked the docs and they are correct:
>> 
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jrose/pres/indy-javadoc-mlvm-pr/java/lang/invoke/MethodHandles.html#dropArguments(java.lang.invoke.MethodHandle,%20int,%20java.util.List)
> 
> The reason you can't find this bug is my poor description of the
> problem. It is the example under the List version of
> MethodHandles.dropArguments that is incorrect. That example should be
> under the varargs version, since it uses varargs.

Ah, that's it; thanks.  OK, I gave each method its own example (and added the new example code to the appropriate jtreg test).

> Sorry for the confusion re. dropArguments and thanks again for your
> all the great work,

You are welcome.

-- John