Removal of function types

[Neal Gafter]

"veridic genetics" is an interesting pair of words, but I have no idea what that would mean as a language construct, or how it would help address any of the issues here.  Please tell us more.

-Neal

On Jul 7, 2010, at 4:17 PM, "Nathan Bryant" <nathan.bryant at linkshare.com> wrote:

> Perhaps there is an alternative middle ground, that would provide
> function types but make them look like SAM's: variadic generics.
> 
> Wink wink, nudge nudge.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lambda-dev-bounces at openjdk.java.net
> [mailto:lambda-dev-bounces at openjdk.java.net] On Behalf Of Doug Lea
> Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2010 7:06 PM
> To: lambda-dev at openjdk.java.net
> Subject: Re: Removal of function types
> 
> On 07/07/10 13:18, Stephen Colebourne wrote:
>> I suggest using this thread to comment on the removal of function
> types :-)
>> 
> 
> As one of the instigators-by-counter-example of function types,
> I do wonder what the plan is for providing dozens if not
> hundreds of SAM types for (parallel) aggregate operations.
> As in my infamous workarounds at:
> http://gee.cs.oswego.edu/dl/jsr166/dist/extra166ydocs/extra166y/Ops.html
> 
> -Doug
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