Javalobby - Comments for "'Closures for Java Project' Vote Completed!"

give me a break! there is a

pk11 — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 07:56:49 -0400

give me a break! there is a simple way to prevent 'destroying the language', just do not upgrade! will closures change the language? yes but the FUD about closures is just ridiculous. did closures destroy c# for example? hardly.

So Neil has gotten one step

jwenting — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 02:21:30 -0400

So Neil has gotten one step closer to destroying the language. Congratulations to him.

Agreed, though it will be

free2create — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:18:06 -0400

Agreed, though it will be nice to have a full featured prototype. Since it is sponsored by the compiler group it has a better chance to get a little more TLC and usage than previously.

Kevin I googled you and it appears that you are at Google and maintain the collections framework and work with Josh. Do you have any information or blogs that would point to how far along in the process they are in evaluating the different proposals ? Recently there has been more external activity visible in the area of compiler updates. I can only hope they have knocked out some of the overhead of opensourcing Java and are now beginning to move forward !

It's not clear to any casual

kevinb9n — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 12:25:14 -0400

It's not clear to any casual reader what this means. All that has happened is that Neal Gafter has proposed to contribute a prototype to openjdk. It's not really news, exactly.

Javalobby - Comments for "&#039;Closures for Java Project&#039; Vote Completed!"

give me a break! there is a

So Neil has gotten one step

Agreed, though it will be

It's not clear to any casual

Javalobby - Comments for "'Closures for Java Project' Vote Completed!"