Re: the benefits of immutability

[Vadim Nasardinov <address@hidden>]

Joe Marshall wrote:
 > When I said `the square root function and the ToString function' I
 > intended that those be the `standard' Math.sqrt and Object.toString
 > operators.

Clearly, this can't be done.  When I said, you can have HOFs in Java,
I did not mean that Java methods already provide this functionality.

To quote Sean O'Rourke (Thu, 14 Aug 2003 08:25:47 -0700, Message-ID:
<m2brusuupw.fsf@rh220-50.resnet.ucsd.edu>):

 > But as with so many things in Java, it doesn't make things
 > impossible so much as awkward, painful, and inefficient.

You can do HOFs, but it ain't pretty and you lose compile-time type
checking, not to mention a slight performance hit.  Did I also mention
it wasn't pretty?