Thursday, 28 February 2008

FCM closures - options within

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The FCM closures proposal , with the JCA extension, consists of multiple parts. This blog outlines how those parts fit together. FCM+JCA...
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Sunday, 24 February 2008

FCM prototype available

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I'm happy to announce the first release of the First Class Methods (FCM) java prototype . This prototype anyone who is interested to fi...
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Thursday, 21 February 2008

Closures - Lightweight interfaces instead of Function types

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Function types, or method types as FCM refers to them, are one of the most controversial features of closures. Is there an alternative tha...
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Tuesday, 19 February 2008

Evaluating BGGA closures

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The current vote forces us all to ask what proposal is best for the future of Java. Personally, I don't find the BGGA proposal persuas...
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Sunday, 17 February 2008

Vote for FCM!

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Java.net is currently running a poll on closures, to get a feel for the strength of support for each proposal. Obviously, this poll has no...
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Monday, 28 January 2008

Java 7 - Multi-line String literals

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One of the most common features in other programming languages is the multi-line String literal. Would it be possible to add this to Java? ...
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Friday, 25 January 2008

Closures - Comparing closure type inference

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In this blog I'm going to compare the three principle 'closure' proposals based on how they infer types. This follows my previo...
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