Allow lambdas to implement abstract classes

[Paul Sandoz]

Hi Howard,

Abstract classes have constructors that will execute user code and thus they can observe and interfere with the process of bootstrapping the lambda expressions. See the following thread for more details:

  http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/lambda-dev/2012-November/006436.html

Paul.

On Mar 1, 2013, at 2:54 AM, Howard Lovatt <howard.lovatt at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Would it be useful in other cases if lambdas could implement abstract
> methods?
> 
>  -- Howard.
>