Re: Closures

What domain is that?

The appeal that BeanShell holds for me is that it is trivial to move
code back and forth between BeanShell and Java.  The beauty of
supporting the Java language is that it is an established standard.

The problem with any particular bit of sugar is that it hampers this
movement.  Personally, I would like Java to unify the syntax for
arrays, lists, maps, and sets.  Until that happens, I would be
reluctant for it to occur in BeanShell for fear that the implementations
wouldn't be completely compatible.

At first blush, all blocks supporting finally seems sensible.
http://nick.chalko.com/smc2/blog/tech/Java/?permalink=AutoTryBlock.txt

Sugar is a tree with many branches.

Harish Krishnaswamy wrote:

> 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
>
> Mark Swanson wrote:
>
>> -1
>>
>> I only want Java syntax with as little scripty features as possible. 
>> The thing that appeals to me the most about BeanShell is that it aims 
>> to provide embedable scriptable Java. I believe adding 
>> Icon/Eiffel/Python/etc... features would make the language so 
>> difficult to learn people won't bother. I look at the language 
>> features Groovy is incorporating and I know that I'll likely never 
>> find the time to understand them, and I'll likely never be able to 
>> read Groovy code that uses them. I want to stick with what I'm 
>> comfortable with and that's just plain Java. When I embed BeanShell I 
>> want to provide people with a scripting language built on a 
>> well-known and understood syntax - Java.
>>
>> Perhaps this issue is what will separate BeanShell and Groovy.
>>  
>>
>
>
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