Fun with method references

[Neal Gafter]

I made a typo.  What I meant to say was "Its true that adding function
types now would be better, but apparently resource and time
constraints prevent Oracle from doing everything at once."

Adding SAMs now instead makes the transition to function types worse.

Cheers,
Neal

On Thursday, August 5, 2010, Neal Gafter <neal at gafter.com> wrote:
> 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.