Primitives in Generics (+ the meaning of this)

[Neal Gafter]

On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 10:07 AM, Brian Goetz <brian.goetz at oracle.com>wrote:

> And, given that inner classes *already* suffer from the accidental
> shadowing
> problem, creating a mechanism that goes the other way (even if the other
> way
> is absolutely right!) is even more confusing for Java developers, who now
> have
> to keep track of two separate and inconsistent bits of puzzlerhood.
>

Brian-

I don't believe it would be more confusing for Java developers (except those
completely unfamiliar with the new language feature).  But setting that
aside, this leads to the natural question: If we're wanting to recreate all
the problems of anonymous inner classes, what, if any, problems ARE
addressed by project lambda, and what is newly possible that was not
possible previously?

-Neal