How cool would it be if `class::foo` would be a method reference to the static method `foo`

MethodReferencesToStaticMethodsDemo.java

public class MethodReferencesToStaticMethodsDemo {

    public Optional<String> firstSpecialString(Collection<String> strings) {
        return strings.stream()
                .filter(MethodReferencesToStaticMethodsDemo::isSpecial)
                .findFirst();
    }

    public Optional<String> anySpecialString(Collection<String> strings) {
        return strings.stream()
                        // does not work but would be so cool!
                        .filter(class::isSpecial)
                        .findAny();
    }

    private static boolean isSpecial(String s) {
        return s.length() == 42;
    }

}