Expected distribution of lambda sizes (Re: Syntax poll, take 2)

[Neal Gafter]

Alex's comment makes sense to me: we cannot reasonably expect to glean the
expected size of lambda bodies from an analysis of existing code bases that
both lack lambda expressions and lack APIs that were designed in the
presence of a language containing lambda expressions.

On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 11:49 PM, Reinier Zwitserloot <
reinier at zwitserloot.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 9:36 AM, Alex Blewitt <alex.blewitt at gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > On 16 Jun 2011, at 08:03, Reinier Zwitserloot <reinier at zwitserloot.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Using the apparent aggregate preferences of the greater java community,
> > as
> > > gleaned by looking at a lot of open source code, I conclude that the
> > greater
> > > java community will likely end up putting a lot more linebreaks in
> > closure
> > > bodies than we are doing with these examples.
> >
> > Using this logic, we can conclude that no-one in the greater Java
> community
> > will be interested in lambdas, since looking at open source code shows no
> > sign of lambda use at the moment.
> >
> >
> This flippant commentary makes no sense and does absolutely nothing to
> further the discussion.
>
>