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

[Joseph D. Darcy]

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