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List:       jakarta-general
Subject:    Re: Future JDK features 2 items
From:       Dain Sundstrom <dsundstrom () gluecode ! com>
Date:       2004-10-29 15:09:37
Message-ID: 8C9819C8-29BC-11D9-9E88-000D93C5B79C () gluecode ! com
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On Oct 27, 2004, at 4:15 PM, Bernhard Fastenrath wrote:

>
> method pointers? closures?
>
> Is anybody going to suggest self-modifying java assembler code as a 
> language feature?

I don't really see how you got from method pointers and closures to 
self-modifying code (I see that as a bit of fear mongering).

> Is the goal to break Java and render it useless?
>
> In my opinion we can live without closures.
> You didn't have to attach "for a bit longer".

I actually love closures, and think it would be a great addition to 
Java.  I spend a lot of time tracking down poorly written try/finally 
blocks in people's code where they don't properly close DB connections, 
IO streams, Jar files, and even delete their temp files.   A good 
closure library would virtually eliminate this type of programming 
errors.

Now I still doubt Sun's ability to pull of this feature after seeing 
the junk in 1.5, but if I got to choose only one major language feature 
to add it would be closures.

-dain


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