On 8 September 2010 22:07, Serge Boulay <[email protected]> wrote:

>> > Plan A: JDK 7 (as currently defined) Mid 2012
>> > Plan B: JDK 7 (minus Lambda, Jigsaw, and part of Coin) Mid 2011
>> >                 JDK 8 (Lambda, Jigsaw, the rest of Coin, ++) Late 2012
>> >
>> > To me, "JDK 7 minus Lambda, Jigsaw and part of Coin" doesn't sound much
>> > like "Getting Java moving again".
>>
>> Getting the real lambda is probably worth the delay.
>
> why do you think we are getting the "real lambda's" with this delay? Did the
> scope of the lambda project change with the delay?

Well, given the only thing we can have now, i.e. limited lambdas (I
admit not having checked lambda-dev for a past month or so but last
time I did, function types - for example - were out of scope) on one
hand and the *possibility* of full lambdas in the future, I choose the
latter.

M,

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