New

[Paul Benedict]

On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 8:51 PM, Howard Lovatt <howard.lovatt at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think the strongest argument that anyone has made against using 'new' is
> your "economy of expression" argument, it then comes down to trading off
> conciseness against consistency and clarity. I go with consistency and
> clarity and you go with conciseness. I guess Alex or someone at Sun will
> decide :)

At one time, the "lambda" keyword was thrown around as an option. Any
thoughts to floating that idea around again? I suppose it was supposed
to function in the language like the "new" keyword:

#<int()> foo = lambda #<int()>(42);

Paul