@Pete F
> again -take a long view -C# is doing the heavy lifting right now,
> implementing experimental stuff like linq that will take its toll on
> the language, and inevitably cripple c# with backwards compatibility
> restrictions, -about then would be a good time for son-of-java
> (literally in many cases! -hopefully daughter of java in others which
> might do more for language wars than anything technical)
LINQ is basically some syntactic sugar over Lambda expressions that
have been in the language since 2.0. The current closures spec is
supposed to cover lambda expressions right?
Up until now I didn't give it much thought on HOW lambda will be
implemented in Java, but now I'm confused how it's going to be done,
Lambda expressions `depend' on function pointers since they are
anonymous functions. I don't think we should have LINQ type language
embedded into Java just yet, but we could definately benefit from
Lambda expressions.
// The following C# snippet demonstrates lambda expressions,
// note that the FineAll method accepts a delegate/function
// pointer.
List<String> myList = new List<String>() {
"One", "Two", "Three", "Four"
);
List<String> filteredList = myList.FindAll(s => s.StartsWith("T"));
Properties, Events and Delegates were in C# since 1.0 so what's that,
8 years, nearly 9 that they've been able to prove that it works?
They also got Generics right because they were't concerned with going
over the existing class libraries and retrofitting generic support to
them, they rightfully left the whole lot alone and created new classes
with generic support and deprecated the old ones. I didn't see the
light when they first did that, but I learnt to understand the meaning
behind their madness.
So hey, now we have PEDL, the four language features required to power
Java ahead of C#.
Properties, Events, Delegates and Lambda expressions :)
-Brett
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