2cents from an ordinary Java developer

Mark Thornton mthornton at optrak.co.uk
Wed Feb 3 08:06:03 PST 2010


Olivier Allouch wrote:
> Please respect the 'Principle of Least Astonishment' for us, average 
> coders. Btw, that also implies a 'return' that just exits from the 
> closure :)
>
>   
Unfortunately what is least astonishing is likely depend on ones other 
experience. Amongst our developers we have experience with Groovy, 
Haskell, JavaScript, Scala* and others in addition to Java. Each will 
probably have subtlely different expectations of the behaviour of a 
lambda in Java.

Mark Thornton

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