On Sep 12, 4:05 pm, Cédric Beust ♔ <[email protected]> wrote: > Jave has indeed had closures since day one (e.g. Runnable, Callable, > etc...). If you're not convinced, ask yourself the following question: is > there any programming construct that you will be able to do in Java 8 with > closure support that you can't do today with Runnable?
Is this the point in the conversation where we hit Turing- completeness? > None. > > The syntax will be nicer, but that's all Java 8 is adding in that area. Syntax is terser (nicer, I'm not so sure I'm willing to absolutely commit to that) than 1.1, but there is also an alleged lighter implementation available with method handles (alleged as the optimisation may perhaps be harder and heavier). Tom -- 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.
