RE: Discussion: Closures

> One possibility would be to use another eval-like method.  
> For example, it could be named callable().  It could return a 
> closure with a call() method, and the whole thing might map 
> to the Java type java.util.concurrent.Callable where 

And how is that different from java.lang.Runnable and run()? Oh, I see -
Callable.call() can return an Object, but run is a void run().

The only minor quibble I might have is for the parameter declaration syntax.
Does this not look more natural?:

  x = callable() {
     foo = someMethod();
     bar++;
  };

  z = callable(foo, bar) {
     print(foo);
     someMethod(bar);
  };

  x.call();
  z.call(foo,bar);




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