Blogging at the speed of thought

Almost a year later since publishing the original Lambda proposal, JSR 335 EG has finally decided to adopt C# style syntax for Java 8 Lambda expressions. Brian has outlined the formal model for the new C# style syntax in his mail to lambda-dev: lambda = ArgList Arrow Body ArgList = Identifier | “(” Identifier [ [...]

Last November, Mark Reinhold announced that Closures will be added to the Java language and six months later we had an initial prototype based on the Straw-Man proposal and last month’s update was considered a significant progress for the language in years. As mentioned in Mark’s post, “Working with parallel arrays in Java, unfortunately, requires [...]