Local functions

[Alex Buckley]

Neal Gafter wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Alex Buckley <Alex.Buckley at sun.com> wrote:
>> I don't recall requirements for BGGA, on which you based JCA.
> 
> For BGGA, first paragraph. See also the JSR proposal.  In short
> (eliding definitions) "Add support so programs can operate on an
> arbitrary block of code with parameters, and simplify the use of
> methods that receive such blocks".

Lambda has similar high-level wording about boilerplate for parallel 
execution. I know what Stephen meant by "requirements", and a couple of 
high-level sentences was not it.

Alex