Hi, being aware that there has been a discussion quite some time ago ( http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/lambda-dev/2011-August/003768.html) I wanted to come up again with this topic as this feature would be beneficial especially for framework developers who wants to appoint behaviour to annotations.
The following snippet shows what I want to vote for. @MyAnnotation(method = MyClass::myMethod)private String myVariable; This would be far more type-safe compared to using string literals to find the method via reflection. - Julian