Neal Gafter has released v0.3 of the Closures for Java proposal on his blog. The new syntax Neal et al. are proposing is:
{ int , int => int } plus = { int x , int y => x + y }
This is going to irritate people as they have to replicate the types of the parameters to the closure. Why not just let the compiler do the work and have:
{ int , int => int } plus = { x , y => x + y }
Of course, this is getting closer (or should that be closure!) to the Groovy syntax for closures:
plus = { x , y -> x + y }
or if you really have to have static types:
plus = { int x , int y -> x + y }
For now I shall stick with Groovy for closure-based programming.
