notes from Valhalla meeting 5/24/17

[John Rose]

On Jun 21, 2017, at 4:44 PM, Paul Sandoz <paul.sandoz at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> A BSM called to resolve a constant can choose when pulling it’s static args to catch and swallow linkage exceptions, keep on trucking, and return a value. Should this be allowed?

Absolutely.  The BSM might have an API-specific fallback.

I'm also thinking that we could add a query for the original symbolic reference,
which the BSM could look and and perhaps resolve "by hand".
This is similar in spirit to the original "invokedynamic" proposals
as a form of "messageNotUnderstood".

— John