Implementing recursive lambda with MethodHandle

[Neal Gafter]

On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 11:28 AM, Joshua Bloch <jjb at google.com> wrote:

> Yes, but it uses an (ugly) anonymous class initialization expression.  The
> whole idea of this JSR is to eliminate the need for these beasts.
>

That is definitely not the idea of this JSR.  We are not "eliminating" the
need for anonymous inner classes.  We are providing a good alternative for a
huge number of use cases.  These recursive functions are a vanishingly small
fraction of the identified use cases.