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Bug 268783

Summary:	Cannot write .hint rule to match method references
Product:	java	Reporter:	Jaroslav Tulach <jtulach>
Component:	Hints	Assignee:	Jan Lahoda <jlahoda>
Status:	NEW ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	sdedic
Priority:	P2
Version:	Dev
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
Issue Type:	DEFECT	Exception Reporter:
Attachments:	Tried

Description Jaroslav Tulach 2016-11-02 09:26:51 UTC

I am trying to avoid usage of lamdas in Truffle API while allowing it to use other features of JDK8 (like default methods):

https://github.com/jtulach/truffle/commit/4b2383f8ffaffd3e46f60aa576f872bd98f1f25e

That works for lamdas, but it turned out that one also needs to disable method references:

Runnable r = String::new;

and it seems that it is not possible to write a rule that would match this kind of expression.

Comment 1 Jaroslav Tulach 2016-11-03 08:29:43 UTC

Created attachment 162740 [details]
Tried

Comment 2 Jaroslav Tulach 2016-11-03 08:30:25 UTC

I tried to use \u003a as suggested by Jan, but `mx jackpot` doesn't detect any method literal violations.