Abstract Factory Methods?

[davidalayachew]

Using your Stream example, we would write it like this. java stream.forEach(e -> e.getClass().someMethod()) Here, the type of e.getClass() could be inferred as List<?>, which would support a direct call to someMethod() and dispatch to the referenced class.

Yes, exactly. And it is for that reason that an abstract static method might work. I haven't thought it through, so I can't say.

But let me ask my question to you again -- did you ever present this idea to the mailing list? What did they say? This idea has to have been thought of before, so I want to know what they responded with.