Category Archives: closures

I want closures “bolted on to Java”

Posted on October 11, 2008 by peter

After seeing Blochs’ session on Javapolis last year and some of the Java 7 sessions at JavaOne this year I gave up on closures in Java. I just didn’t believe that they would be part of Java 7 anymore. I … Continue reading →

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Closures and the return of the return

Posted on December 21, 2007 by peter

I attended Joshua Blochs’ presentation on closures at JavaPolis last week (watch the video here). This slides about return not return from what you’d expect kept me wondering: how do other languages solve this ‘problem’. The example from Bloch, taken … Continue reading →

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