Local functions

[Stephen Colebourne]

On 10 February 2010 01:34, Alex Buckley <Alex.Buckley at sun.com> wrote:
> My concern about lambdas duplicating the functionality of anon.inner
> classes has led me to think about dropping statement lambdas, keeping
> expression lambdas, and then adding block expressions. (I am avoiding
> saying anything about 'this' in such circumstances.)

What concern about "duplicating the functionality of anon.inner
classes" ? Please explain! This appears to be a sudden jump from a
relatively small conceptual change (from a developers POV) to a much
larger one (which I suspect many may feel to be alien to the Java they
know).

Stephen