Doug Lea's work has always been the main motivator for getting closures. It might be slightly selfish, but no more selfish than i.e. SUN dumping JSR's left and right because they want to focus on JavaFX. That's just business I think.
/Casper On Nov 25, 9:11 am, etzel <[email protected]> wrote: > From this blog post by Mark Reinhold (http://blogs.sun.com/mr/entry/ > closures) it seems that the primary reason to introduce closures in > Java 7 is to remove boilerplate code from the fork-join framework > (also in Java 7). Isn't this quite selfish? I mean, I know two or > three frameworks that would benefit from closures as well. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
