On 5/11/21 2:01 PM, Brian Goetz wrote:
Yes, please!
To add to the list of motivations/things to remove: the current
implementation relies on the special `MagicAccessorImpl` to relax
accessibility. The notes in this class are frightening; getting rid
of it would be a mercy.
Thanks, great point. I will add that.
Mandy
On 5/11/2021 4:42 PM, Mandy Chung wrote:
This draft JEP is a proposal to reimplement core reflection on top of
method handles:
https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8266010
Feedback is welcome. The prototype is at [1].
Mandy
[1] https://github.com/mlchung/jdk/tree/reimplement-method-invoke