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[John Rose]

On Nov 16, 2010, at 11:22 PM, Mike Swingler wrote:

> The Mac OS X 10.6 SDK allows us to use blocks (which _greatly_ simplifies interacting with AppKit on the main thread), and has many key pieces of functionality exposed as full Cocoa API (as opposed to using private SPI or Carbon functions).

Very nice.

I hope we can eventually map the blocks to method handles instead of interfaces.  The semantic gap is small.  A little sun.misc.Unsafe magic would do the trick.

-- John