Re: [The Java Posse] Good gosh J7 lambdas/closures are looking worse by the day

2010-05-31 Thread Josh McDonald
Ew, this reeks of "making the compiler-writer's job easy". There must be a nicer solution, even within the narrow guidelines of the problem. Even Obj-C's blocks are nicer than this (in Syntax at least). On 31 May 2010 15:58, Michael Neale wrote: > > http://www.baptiste-wicht.com/2010/05/oracle-p

Re: [The Java Posse] Good gosh J7 lambdas/closures are looking worse by the day

2010-05-30 Thread Russel Winder
On Sun, 2010-05-30 at 22:58 -0700, Michael Neale wrote: > http://www.baptiste-wicht.com/2010/05/oracle-pushes-a-first-version-of-closures/comment-page-1/#comment-2023 > > I guess most of the attention has been on the semantics (and rightly > so) but wow... just wow. > > (sorry to interupt the app

Re: [The Java Posse] Good gosh J7 lambdas/closures are looking worse by the day

2010-05-30 Thread Mark Derricutt
I really don't like the look of them. If they'd reused { } around the actual method call I'd be much happier. But reusing ()? -- Pull me down under... On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 5:58 PM, Michael Neale wrote: > > http://www.baptiste-wicht.com/2010/05/oracle-pushes-a-first-version-of-closures

[The Java Posse] Good gosh J7 lambdas/closures are looking worse by the day

2010-05-30 Thread Michael Neale
http://www.baptiste-wicht.com/2010/05/oracle-pushes-a-first-version-of-closures/comment-page-1/#comment-2023 I guess most of the attention has been on the semantics (and rightly so) but wow... just wow. (sorry to interupt the appleposse with java news). -- You received this message because you