Parallel-safe lambdas

[Olivier Allouch]

Ouch !

I, like Stephen Colebourne, am surprised. I thought the goal was to add 
closures to the language, not to a single library.
I can tell you all the articles and tutorials that will come after the 
inclusion of closures will be about predicates and 
forEach/map/filter-like examples.
I understand more why GUI coding is never mentioned here.
The real issue Java has isn't parallel execution (I'll probably never 
use it), it's the lack of closures in the everyday coding.

Olivier Allouch

Le 11/02/2010 04:29, Alex Buckley a écrit :
> You've set up quite a strawman. Since the draft Lambda spec doesn't
> require import of variables, doesn't ban use of variables in the lexical
> scopem and doesn't say anything about copying locals, I don't know why
> you're wasting time with fake rules that do.
>
> Your experience with Apache Commons' functors would be valuable to this
> list. But if all you're going to do is argue with the goal of the
> project, unsubscribe.
>
> Alex
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