Interesting. If we end up using more Lambda's in FX, there might still be an easy way to maintain the back port to 7.
Richard Begin forwarded message: > From: Esko Luontola <[email protected]> > Subject: Lambda Expressions Backported to Java 7, 6 and 5 > Date: July 24, 2013 1:40:33 AM PDT > To: [email protected] > > Hi all, > > Thought you might want to know about this: > > http://blog.orfjackal.net/2013/07/lambda-expressions-backported-to-java-7.html > https://github.com/orfjackal/retrolambda > > And thanks for developing the lambdas. :) > > I would just like to know that what is the probability for the > implementation of LambdaMetafactory or InnerClassLambdaMetafactory being > changed before the GA release of JDK 8? > > Currently Retrolambda relies on the fact that LambdaMetafactory > dynamically generates exactly one class per each invocation of > LambdaMetafactory's methods. Also it relies on the naming pattern of the > generated lambda class and the synthetic methods in the class containing > the lambda. If any of those implementation details change, I'll have to > update Retrolambda. > > -- > Esko Luontola > www.orfjackal.net >
