Static and top-level methods can be compile time constants.

tests/language/methods_as_constants_test.dart

+// Copyright (c) 2012, the Dart project authors.  Please see the AUTHORS file
+// for details. All rights reserved. Use of this source code is governed by a
+// BSD-style license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
+
+StringBuffer buffer;
+
+topLevelMethod() {
+  buffer.add('t');
+}
+
+class A {
+  final Function closure;
+  const A(this.closure);
+  const A.defaultTopLevel([this.closure = topLevelMethod]);
+  const A.defaultStatic([this.closure = staticMethod]);
+  const A.defaultStatic2([this.closure = A.staticMethod]);
+  static staticMethod() {
+    buffer.add('s');
+  }
+  run() => closure();
+}
+
+main() {
+  buffer = new StringBuffer();
+  (const A(topLevelMethod)).run();
+  (const A(A.staticMethod)).run();
+  (const A.defaultTopLevel()).run();
+  (const A.defaultStatic()).run();
+  (const A.defaultStatic2()).run();
+  (new A.defaultTopLevel()).run();
+  (new A.defaultStatic()).run();
+  (new A.defaultStatic2()).run();
+  Expect.equals('tstsstss', '$buffer');

[kasperl, 2012/08/27 13:17:26]

This would probably be easier to maintain if you checked the individual runs
rather than the entire sequence. Maybe add another helper:

   Expect.equals("t", run(const A(topLevelMethod)));

and have run reset the buffer and return the buffer as a string? It would also
be nice with tests that you can use initialize a static const / top-level const
with a reference to a static / top-level method (4 combinations).

[ngeoffray, 2012/08/27 14:09:09]

Done.

+}