[foreign-jextract] RFR: 8261906: Improve jextract support for virtual functions [v4]

[Jorn Vernee]

Yep, that makes things a little bit easier as well. The alternative 
would be to close over the segment manually:

     MemorySegment segment = ...
     func x = (int a, float b) -> foo.f(segment, a, b);

Jorn

On 03/03/2021 15:39, Sebastian Stenzel wrote:
>> On 3. Mar 2021, at 15:18, Maurizio Cimadamore <mcimadamore at openjdk.java.net> wrote:
>>
>> In other words, I find this:
>>
>> foo.f(segment).apply(10, 21F)
>>
>> *more* readable (not less) than (and less magic than):
>>
>> foo.f(segment, 10, 21F)
> Furthermore, the `apply` function can be used from places that don't need to know about segments. This might be helpful for building libs with higher levels of abstraction.