Simpler Java closure syntax proposal

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By evan chooly
via dmlloyd.blogspot.com
Published: Oct 07 2008 / 20:43

I'm not a language lawyer by any stretch of the imagination, but this looks to be a much nicer proposal for closures in Java without all the need for syntactical and VM gymnastics.

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bloid replied ago:

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link changed to point straight to article..

Please avoid using tinyurl or similar...

evan chooly replied ago:

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sorry. just habit. noted, though. :)

bloid replied ago:

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:) Thanks

soulcutter replied ago:

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Finally a closure proposal that actually makes sense. It's just too bad BGGA seems to have so much momentum.

OtengiM replied ago:

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Get this proposal quick to JCP and OpenJDK 7 and be done with this.

yardena replied ago:

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Before people get carried away - this proposal does not support delayed evaluation of a closure, and as such can't be used in many scenarios where closures are used in other languages. Concurrency API?
So it's not half as powerful as BGGA, I mean it is nice that people are creative with language proposals, but let's just chill down the excitement.