<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On May 18, 2009, at 7:46 PM, John Rose wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Sans Mono'; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 21px; white-space: pre; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "> public </span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; "><span class="n" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.4em; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">MethodHandle</span></font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "> </span></font><span class="nf" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">methodNotFound</span></font></span><span class="o" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.4em; font-weight: bold; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">(</span></font></span><span class="o" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.4em; font-weight: bold; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">)</span></font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "> </span></font><span class="o" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.4em; font-weight: bold; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">{ return /*private*/ <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); ">METHOD_NOT_FOUND<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">; }</span></span></span></font></span></span></span></span></blockquote></div><br><div>(I should have named that "methodNotFoundHandle", since Java doesn't have curried applications.</div><div>None of this will be necessary if the EG agrees to support ldc of method handles. -- John)</div></body></html>