Too terse and too alien?

[Howard Lovatt]

Rémi Forax forax at univ-mlv.fr  Sat May 29 07:14:34 PDT 2010 wrote:
> I've tried a swearword but legal:
>
> #()(#(){}).();
>
> The compiler knows more slang words than me :)

Rémi comment, whilst very amusing, is a little worrying. Also there are
already a number of negative comments, e.g.:

http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse/browse_frm/thread/54ab72091a1ffe95


and

http://www.baptiste-wicht.com/2010/05/oracle-pushes-a-first-version-of-closures/comment-page-1/#comment-2023


 Anyone else worried about the reaction of Java developers who are not so
involved with lambda dev? Is the syntax too terse and too alien?

-- Howard.