https://www.lambdafaq.org/what-is-the-syntax-for-instance-method-references/ Your questions answered: all about Lambdas and friends Wed, 23 Sep 2020 15:06:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 https://www.lambdafaq.org/what-is-the-syntax-for-instance-method-references/#comment-4169 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 12:24:41 +0000 http://www.lambdafaq.org/?p=217#comment-4169 If you have a class with an instance method and a static method sharing the same name, you get a nasty ‘ambiguous’ compiler error.
E.g. let’s assume your TransPoint class has a method “static TransPoint transpose(final TransPoint)” (additionally to the above instance method), then the pointList.forEach(TransPoint::transpose) wouldn’t compile any more.

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