Translation Using asSam() and LINQ for Java

[Neal Gafter]

Ming-Yee-

It is true that project lambda doesn't appear to be offering the primitives
that would be required to get LINQ-like behavior in Java, but I don't
believe classloader hacking is the right way to do it.

Cheers,
Neal

On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Ming-Yee Iu
<mingyeeiu+lambda at gmail.com<mingyeeiu%2Blambda at gmail.com>
> wrote:

> I'm concerned that translating lambda expressions to bytecode using
> MethodHandles and asSam() will make it difficult if not impossible to
> create some sort of LINQ-equivalent for Java.
>
> If lambda expressions are compiled down to inner-classes, then someone
> could add LINQ functionality to JDK7 using a clever classloader (as
> long as there is automatic closure conversion to interfaces or support
> for annotations on lambda expressions). When using MethodHandles and
> asSam(), my gut feeling is that it is not possible to implement
> something like LINQ without having a special compiler for a
> LINQ-supporting-variant of Java.
>
> Perhaps JDK7 could use only inner classes for its anonymous functions,
> and this asSam() stuff could be delayed until JDK8 when people have
> more experience with what they want to do with lambda expressions.
>
> -Ming
>
>