On: Java finally open-sourced. Does anyone still care?

[tomjen]

Java 7 should add closures. And in the mean time, most of the times you would be using closures, you can use anonymous inner classes.

[jlouis → tomjen]

anon. inner classes are simply too heavy to warrant most uses. You want brevity.

[jmzachary → tomjen]

Yeah, closures and anonymous inner classes would really redeem Java in the eyes of the masses.

Java is going, going, ...

[evilneanderthal → jmzachary]

i think what tomjen was referencing was that java already has anonymous inner classes.

[jmzachary → evilneanderthal]

I'm aware. I was trying to take a funny jab at Java and it didn't turn out so well.