On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 01:30:11PM -0700, Damien Neil wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 12:59:51PM -0700, David Whipp wrote:
> > Its not quite the same thing, but Java does have the concept of
> > anonymous classes (it names them 'inner' classes): Is Perl6 going
> > to have a similar concept?
>
> Inner classes and anonymous classes are actually different in Java.
> (Anonymous classes are always inner classes; inner classes are not
> always anonymous.) An inner class is a class contained within a
> class; only the containing class may use the contained class. An
I forget... has the possibility/utility of having nested namespaces
been discussed?
> anonymous inner class is an unnamed instantiation of an interface;
> these are often used in places where Perl coders would use a closure.
> (Java doesn't have closures.)
>
> Both inner classes and anonymous inner classes exist for reasons
> fairly specific to Java; they're very useful in a certain context,
> but Perl has other ways to accomplish the same things.
>
> - Damien
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