Around 53:30, there's a participant (Joel Neely? Sounds like he's from Texas anyway) who calls for "interface inference". That sounds an awful lot like Delphi and C# delegates, no duck-typing or dynamic proxy required, it can all be resolved (and inlined) at compile time. Very useful for minimizing coupling between subsystems (sender and receiver need only be concerned with the call signature, not some fragile published interface) and of course, the foundation of a language level event mechanism. Unfortunately for those who would like this improvement, Sun has taken a stand against that one a long time ago: http://java.sun.com/docs/white/delegates.html
But closure proposals like FCM and BGGA would be a superset of such a mechanism, no? /Casper --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
