On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 9:48 PM, Winnebeck, Jason <jason.winneb...@windstream.com> wrote: > The explicit cast was needed before 2.2 only when you were trying to cast a > Closure to an instance of an interface (or other SAM type). In my example, > the closure implicitly can be casted to type X after 2.2. Before 2.2, you had > to explicitly cast the closure to X. > > Jochen's example worked because he didn't declare the type of his parameter. > When no type is declared, "Object" is used, which will take the Closure > directly.
So before 2.2 the cast was necessary in order to satisfy the method signature argument-wise, with a single Object argument being the default (and hence not requiring a cast)? Did I get that right?
