Re: Closures versus objects

On Feb 21, 2007, at 1:51 PM, Joe Marshall wrote:

> Perhaps, but is the placement a matter of taste or necessity.  And  
> is the Java
> placement better or worse?  I'll argue that what you *want* to do  
> is specialize
> the NIL class (that is, the class containing the singleton instance
> NULL, not the
> empty class), but you cannot because NULL is weird.

You're absolutely right and I assume you recall that Ricard Cobbe is  
working on just this problem for his dissertation. -- Matthias