Alternative syntax for closures

[Rémi Forax]

Neal Gafter a écrit :
> On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 6:19 AM, Rémi Forax <forax at univ-mlv.fr 
> <mailto:forax at univ-mlv.fr>> wrote:
>
>     I've just written a blog about an alternative syntax:
>     http://weblogs.java.net/blog/forax/archive/2008/07/alternative_syn.html
>
>
> That's nice, but it doesn't really help evaluate this alternative.
It's just a syntax alternative, not a semantic alternative to BGGA.
I don't like the fact BGGA use curly braces to define an expression,
use a non natural (non Javaish) order between return type and parameter 
types
in function type syntax and use two different types for 
restricted/unrestricted function types
which is too complex.
Furthermore, i don't like exception type parameter, too complex too, 
that why i've proposed
a different syntax for method that takes an unrestricted closure, this 
allow to
perform exception transparency seamlessly and avoid create a type for 
unrestricted function type
(like T... which is only available in method declaration).
>
> If your proposal, I see you use, but don't define, the syntax for 
> function types.
ok, fixed.
> I see you allow referring to a method by its simple name as a closure, 
> but I don't know what name lookup rules you have in mind that would 
> make that possible.
>
??,
method name lookup is defined by 15.12.2 (JLS3), i don't want to change it.

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