MethodHandle.bindTo() only for reference types?

[Aleksey Shipilev]

Hi,

I wonder if anyone could point to the explanation why MH.bindTo() is
accepting only reference types? This behavior seems surprising for
newcomers like me, mostly because similar API accepts primitive types.
For one, given:

 public static void foo(int i);

...and the MethodHandle mh referring to it, I can do:
 MethodHandle mh2 = MethodHandles.insertArguments(mh, 0, (int)someInt)

...but this one is prohibited:
 MethodHandle mh2 = mh.bindTo((int)someInt);

Thanks,
-Aleksey.

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