Fun with method references

[Neal Gafter]

On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 1:59 AM, Stephen Colebourne <scolebourne at joda.org>wrote:

> On 4 August 2010 23:49, Neal Gafter <neal at gafter.com> wrote:
> > The more SAMs and SAM APIs you introduce, the worse you will make things
> for
> > the language with function types later.  While it is true that things are
> > already bad, that is no justification for making them worse.
>
> Yes there are. About 10 milliion - the number of Java developers out
> there. They need the best APIs they can get *now* not at some
> intangible point in the future.
>

Its true that adding SAMs now would be better, but apparently resource and
time constraints prevent Oracle from doing everything at once.