Project Lambda: Java Language Specification draft 0.1.5

[Paul Benedict]

Neal,

Thanks for the links. To offer my perspective, those who support the
syntax don't appear to have a typical background -- usually those who
are admitted language designers or are serious hobbyists about
languages. If that sounds funny for a "lamda dev" mailing list,
there's definitely a spread subscribed here based on responses.
Nothing wrong with that. I just think those who opposed better
represented the casual Java population. Not being a language designer
myself, I empathize with their position.

Paul

On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 10:19 AM, Neal Gafter <neal at gafter.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 6:25 AM, Paul Benedict <pbenedict at apache.org> wrote:
>> What happened to the self.invoke() syntax? A barrage of people came
>> out saying self.() looks like a syntax error (I agree); I don't recall
>> anyone advocating the syntax after the first draft was released.
>
> To refresh your memory, here was my advocacy:
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/lambda-dev/2010-January/000370.html
>
> See also http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/lambda-dev/2010-January/000365.html
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/lambda-dev/2010-January/000350.html
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/lambda-dev/2010-January/000445.html
>
> Cheers,
> Neal
>