On Fri, 17 Feb 2023 21:21:56 GMT, Jorn Vernee <jver...@openjdk.org> wrote:
> > (because they are all not referenced from the program any more). > > So, it sounds like this is testing a case where > `LambdaMetafactory.metafactory` is being called directly? > > I'd like to point out that, while I buy that people are doing this (I see > enough of this on StackOverflow), `LambdaMetafactory` is a runtime API > specifically designed to support a language feature. Calling it directly is > an unintended use case. Sorry, but that's a really weird argument. You can't introduce a new public API and then blame people for using it! If the API is really only intended to support the internal implementation of a language feature than make it private and don't export it. ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/12493
