Post-Devoxx Project Coin update, closures off-topic for coin-dev

[Ted Neward]

Joe--

Is the mailing list for Project Lambda up and running yet?

Ted Neward
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: coin-dev-bounces at openjdk.java.net [mailto:coin-dev-
> bounces at openjdk.java.net] On Behalf Of Joseph D. Darcy
> Sent: Monday, November 30, 2009 8:14 AM
> To: coin-dev at openjdk.java.net
> Subject: Post-Devoxx Project Coin update, closures off-topic for coin-
> dev
> 
> Hello.
> 
> As has been announced recently at Devoxx and covered in various places,
> including previous threads on this list, Mark Reinhold made several
> announcements about JDK 7 at this year's Devoxx:
> 
> 1) JDK 7 will have a form of closures.
> 2) The JDK 7 schedule is being extended to roughly fall 2010.
> 
> On the first announcement, the coin-dev list is not the appropriate
> forum to discuss closures in Java.  Closures are hereby decreed as
> off-topic for coin-dev.
> 
> Mark's blog entry "Closures for Java"
> (http://blogs.sun.com/mr/entry/closures) invites those with an informed
> opinion to participate in the current discussion; watch Mark's blog for
> news about creation of a new list or project, etc., to host this
> closures effort.
> 
> On the second announcement, while the JDK 7 schedule has been extended,
> many of the current final five (or so) Project Coin features have not
> yet been fully implemented, specified, and tested.  Therefore, there
> will *not* be a general reassessment of Project Coin feature selection
> or another call for proposals in JDK 7.  The final five (or so)
> proposals remain selected for inclusion in JDK 7 and work will continue
> to complete those features.  However, given its technical merit and the
> possibility of providing useful infrastructure for ARM, improved
> exception handling is now being reconsidered for inclusion in JDK 7.
> No
> other "for further consideration" proposal is under reconsideration.
> 
> -Joe