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Blog Archive for forax during January 2009

method handles == closures ??
John Rose (JSR 292 spec leader) recently push a great patch that enables support for method handles inside the VM. A java.dyn.MethodHandle is a safe object that stands for a function pointer but unlike a function pointer, calling a method handle with wrong arguments raise an exception. The aim of method handles (with invokedynamic) is to ease the support of dynamic languages by...