return-from-lambda viewed as dangerous, good alternatives

Neal Gafter neal at gafter.com
Fri Jan 8 15:35:05 PST 2010


On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 3:14 PM, Alex Buckley <Alex.Buckley at sun.com> wrote:
> BGGA offered transparency and non-transparency via unrestricted and
> restricted function types and closures. CfJ 0.6a and 0.6b, taken
> together, offer both too. The differences are well understood.
>
> However, the Project Lambda strawman - and this list - are about
> non-transparent a.k.a. restricted lambdas. I will soon be sending a
> draft spec for lambdas as envisaged in the strawman. Hopefully further
> discussion about transparency can occur on closures-dev, as Neal said
> earlier.

The point of intersection is checking that Sun's Project Lambda does
not preclude transparency.  That discussion is appropriate here, no?

Cheers,
Neal


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