function types syntax

[Neal Gafter]

On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Mikael Grev <grev at miginfocom.com> wrote:
> The discussions on this list almost always spiral down the purity path, making sure that
> every little 0.1% of use cases are handled for every possible situation. What we instead
> should do is to create a syntax and rule set that works really smooth for 95% of the use
> cases and simply make the compiler forbid the last 5% for now. Then we should have a
> plan for Java 8 to polish the syntax to cram a few more percent out of the solution (and
> it is important that this is communicated directly for the release of Java 7 closures).

The only way we can be sure we have a way of developing such a plan in
a subsequent release (without breaking compatibility) is to work out
the issues today.