Re: Closures

Harish Krishnaswamy <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.beanshell.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Unfortunately the opposite is also true! But looking at the industry, it 
seems the majority actually likes the syntax sugar and hence the 
acceptance of the Groovy JSR.

-Harish

Mark Swanson wrote:

>On April 24, 2004 12:47 pm, Harish Krishnaswamy wrote:
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>>I agree that the code will become hard to read when you add a lot
>>Perl-ish syntax, but there is a lot of other intuituve syntax that is
>>absent in Java. That is the primary reason people are allured to it. It
>>makes the code concise and to the point which helps readability and
>>productivity. Besides it is a pleasure to code. I think Beanshell should
>>consider a lot of the syntax sugar that Groovy is adding if it would
>>like to continue playing in this domain.
>>
>>-Harish
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>>
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>I can agree to disagree.
>One person's intuitive and readable syntax can be another person's nightmare.
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