The decision threads about closures are currently in a situation that can best be described as a deadlock. BGGA has the most proponents, but also the biggest...
37 replies - 3398 views - 08/14/08 by Mikael Grev in Articles
There's a very good article on JavaWorld by Klaus Kreft and Angelika Langer (the latter is the author of the well-known Java Generics FAQ) with the title...
21 replies - 2182 views - 07/03/08 by Jesper in Articles
Ever try to unit test code with static method calls? That's right. You know how this feels.
7 replies - 2070 views - 06/17/08 by dennisbyrne in Articles
After 2 years of development, Sleep 2.1 is now released. Sleep is a Java-based scripting language heavily inspired by Perl. Features include first-class...
2 replies - 1530 views - 06/16/08 by Raphael Mudge in Announcements
On Paul's return from JavaOne this year, we spoke about Neal Gafter's Closures Cookbook talk. From what I understood, this was a look at the BGGA closures...
2 replies - 1811 views - 06/16/08 by d6y in Articles
The JavaONE technical sessions have been made available with featured videos and PDFs of the technical sessions, helping those of us who missed the conference...
2 replies - 3056 views - 06/04/08 by James Sugrue in Articles
People argue that verbose code is easier to understand. Do you agree when reading these two examples, one method in Java, one in Scala?
11 replies - 2393 views - 05/21/08 by joern.zaefferer in News
In my previous post I was fumbling with how to leverage closures to improve the visitor pattern. Neal suggested that I could leverage closures in building the...
2 replies - 2019 views - 03/16/08 by Alex Miller in News
With the recent surge in Java closures blogs, I thought I would do a roundup on some recent hot topics. Probably the most important development is that we now...
10 replies - 5442 views - 03/03/08 by Alex Miller in News
My main concern with proposals for closures in Java has always been that it has the potential of making multi-threading so transparent that you forget to think...
2 replies - 164 views - 02/22/08 by Torbjörn Gannholm in News
Ted Neward has a good post asking who is the moral leader of the Java language, particularly with respect to Java 7 and the future of the various closure...
18 replies - 2458 views - 02/19/08 by Alex Miller in News
I'll admit, higher-order functions sounds like link bait for over-achievers. Trust me, I didn't invent the term :-) A Higher-order function is a concept from...
6 replies - 4176 views - 02/03/08 by Steven Devijver in News
Did James Gosling just end the ongoing closures debate?
1 replies - 2326 views - 02/01/08 by Eric Burke in News
James Gosling decided to state his opinion unambiguously on closures for Java 7. In summary: yes, he wants 'em!
0 replies - 2743 views - 01/31/08 by Alex Miller in News
There have been a couple interesting developments on the closures front this week that I thought I would mention.
First, Rémi Forax has put forth his own...
0 replies - 449 views - 01/17/08 by Alex Miller in News
