closures after all?

[Howard Lovatt]

Hopefully this is true and we will get something more ambitious than the
current proposals. I think a limited form of closures, at the CISE end of
the spectrum, i.e. short syntax for inner classes, would be a good edition
along with an expanded collections library that includes internal iterators
that make good use these new short-syntax inner classes. It would be
important to design the addition so that it could latter be expanded if
experience showed there was a need at a later date, e.g. possible future
expansion could include: non-local returns, write to captured variables,
structural typing, control loops, etc.

 -- Howard. (is the news too good to be true?)

---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Serge Boulay <serge.boulay at gmail.com>
> To: coin-dev at openjdk.java.net
> Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:47:42 -0500
> Subject: closures after all?
> Maybe reading into this too much, but are closures in pipe after all?
>
> http://puredanger.com/tech/2009/11/18/closures-after-all/
>