[JSR308] Hello, and a comment (closures)

[Neal Gafter]

There isn't any obvious relationship to me.

On 1/30/07, Eugene Kuleshov <eu at javatx.org> wrote:
>
> Neal,
>
>   Since you already here, can you please share your thoughts on
> relationship between JSR 308 and your own proposal for supporting
> closures in Java language [1], which you've been actively advocating in
> your blog [2].
>
>   Thanks
>
>   Eugene
>
> [1] http://gafter.blogspot.com/index.html
> [2] http://www.javac.info/
>
>
> Neal Gafter wrote:
> > Just joining the discussion and mailing list, I'd like to introduce
> > myself: Neal Gafter from Google. Please pardon me if I ask dumb
> > questions, as I haven't been listening.
> >
> > I read the draft spec (and an earlier version), and it seems much more
> > complex than it needs to be to accomplish its goals.  The simplest
> > syntax would be to annotate a type by placing the annotation after the
> > type. This works for arrays, arrays of arrays, return types, argument
> > types, etc without any ambiguity with existing syntax. The selected
> > syntax, on the other hand, does have ambiguities that require
> > special-casing many contexts, such as arrays. Perhaps there is some
> > motivation for the current syntax that I'm missing.
>
>
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