On 01/16/2013 07:54 AM, Joe Darcy wrote:
Hi Florian,
On 1/10/2013 1:23 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
On 01/08/2013 10:24 PM, Joe Darcy wrote:
As discussed over on one of the Project Lambda lists [1], we're adding
an interface type to the platform to explicitly mark interface types as
being functional interfaces suitable for use in lambda expressions.
Please review the addition of this new type:
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~darcy/8005298.0/
Shouldn't this annotation have @Retention(RetentionPolicy.SOURCE),
similar to the @Override annotation?
No; we intentionally made this annotation have runtime retention to
allow it to also be queried to various tools at runtime, etc.
This is really a bit odd. Doesn't this risk that code will rely on the
annotation, instead of inferring the functional interface status based
on the interface contents?
I could not find this part in the lambda-libs-spec-experts discussion.
Have you got a more specific pointer?
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Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security Team
