lambda-repo workaround [was Re: Can't get lambda forest to work]

[Maurizio Cimadamore]

> This is what I was referring to.  It means to use a map function like
> that in the strawman proposal, you need functions which use the boxed
> types, not the more usual ones using primitive types.
> See http://blog.fuseyism.com/index.php/2010/06/17/higher-level-functions-in-java/
> where I did a quick basic implementation of map as a test and run into
> this issue.
>    
I suggest you correct your post, since javac is not crashing anymore ;-)

Your request seems fair enough; I will discuss this with my team and see 
if there are some lurking unsafety issues that justify the lack of 
boxing support in the current spec.

Maurizio