capturing (or not) mutable local variables

[Brian Goetz]

Surely you realize (a) would be a huge departure from the experience  
of typical java developers.  Who do not read the jls.

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On Nov 20, 2010, at 4:08 PM, Neal Gafter <neal at gafter.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 1:29 AM, Brian Goetz  
> <brian.goetz at oracle.com> wrote:
> If you want to capture a not-effectively-final local variable in a  
> closure, then one of the following two things has to happen:
> a) The lifetime of the variable must be extended to the lifetime of  
> the closure
> b) The lifetime of the closure must be shortened to the lifetime of  
> the variable.
>
> The JLS doesn't talk about the lifetime of local variables because,  
> like all variables and dynamically allocated objects, they simply  
> cease to exist when they can no longer be referenced.  There would  
> be no need to change that.
>