Lambda evaluation - postfix or prefix?

[Doug Lea]

Joshua Bloch wrote:
> Alex,
> 
> Along these lines I suggested * as a prefix operator, which is familiar from
> function pointers in C and C++.  Doug Lea likes this. 

I admit that I do like this. The correspondence
to function pointers is close enough that inventing a new
syntactic form requires a good argument for
ignoring historical precedent. Which I haven't seen.
(although I have not had enough time to read these
recent discussions so maybe I missed it.)


-Doug