Blocks – an alternative for Closures ?

The discussion about Closures for Java is still an ongoing issue and haven’t lost anything of its heat. The more concrete the different proposals get, the more excited get their advocates (resp. the more warningly their detractors). One popular opinion is afraid of the additional complexity that may not be understandable by the most part of developers: It’s like providing a kind of a chain saw to their hands that could become more dangerous than helpfull, while producing a pile of unpredictable, complex code. Read the rest of this entry »

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