Re: Discussion: Closures

Question about:

Object [] c = { someMethod() };

Is that a code block or array syntax sugar?

Bob

On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 12:02:52 -0500, Mark Swanson <mark-Ev4pRKZdMen6+sPVXcLqrwC/[email protected]> wrote:
> On February 3, 2005 11:31 am, Patrick Niemeyer wrote:
> >
> > 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()
> 
> or perhaps closure()?
> 
> > block-like syntax that we've discussed before.  My only fear there is
> > that it could become ambiguous with Java syntax.
> >
> > For example:
> >
> > c={ someMethod(); }
> >
> > Is that a closure or is it just a loose form of:
> >
> > Object [] c = { someMethod() };
> 
> Urg... I would find the overloading confusing. I imagine it would lead to code
> that would be hard to read.
> 
> After reading about Apache functors and the recent article on Java.net about
> using java 5 language features to simulate closures (predicate article) and
> reading the glowing comments about closures from the Ruby folks I feel the
> ability is much more important than the syntactic sugar surrounding it.
> 
> I oppose the block-like syntax because it does not add functionality and it
> overloads the Java syntax in a confusing manner.
> 
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