Re: bindings and assignments (was: Re: continuations)

[Nathan Carl Summers <address@hidden>]

On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, Michael Vanier wrote:

> This is my #1 pet peeve about java.  It drives me crazy.  So many styles of
> programming are made so much harder because of this.  But with real
> closures, the environment model of java would get more complicated, and
> presumably there would be efficiency costs as well, and I assume that the
> language's designers didn't want to deal with any of that.

Doens't one of the authors of the Java Language Specification post on this
list?