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[Neal Gafter]

On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Jakob Praher <jp at hapra.at> wrote:

> Why did you change to # for introducing function types and creating
> closures?
>

Because the # syntax for references to methods is already part of the Java
mindset from its use in javadoc.  That naturally generalizes to a
corresponding syntax for lambdas and therefore function types.


> But I think having to write:
>
>   int[] result = x.select( #(int c) c % 2 == 0)
>
> is harder to read. Don't you think?
>

Not especially.
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