Danger Will Robinson! Missing API!

[Attila Szegedi]

On May 25, 2011, at 10:34 PM, Charles Oliver Nutter wrote:

> On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 12:19 AM, Ola Bini <ola.bini at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Take a look at the way I use SwitchPoints in Seph. The api you're
>> looking for is already there:
>> 
>> SwitchPoint x = new SwitchPoint();
>> MethodHandle valid =
>> x.guardWithTest(MethodHandles.constant(boolean.class, true),
>> MethodHandle.constant(boolean.class, false));
>> 
>> System.err.println("Still valid: " + valid.invoke());
>> SwitchPoint.invalidateAll(new SwitchPoint[]{x});
>> System.err.println("Now not valid: " + valid.invoke());
> 
> I have to be blunt: this is just about the most roundabout way to
> determine if a SwitchPoint is valid I can imagine :)

Well, lacking a method, it's actually probably the most straightforward one :-)
Ola wins gazillion points for resourcefulness.

> Can't we just add
> a method?

Yeah, probably warranted; since the information is available anyway, it'd make sense to make it easily accessible.

Attila.

> - Charlie
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