Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!news.glorb.com!news.netfront.net!not-for-mail From: Wanja Gayk Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Style Police (a rant) Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 01:22:12 +0200 Organization: Netfront http://www.netfront.net/ Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 77.8.106.205 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: adenine.netfront.net 1315783342 4985 77.8.106.205 (11 Sep 2011 23:22:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@netfront.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 23:22:22 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: MicroPlanet-Gravity/3.0.4 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:7838 In article , cthun_117@qmail.net.au says... > > Bullying someone to functional code would be pretty stupid, as the > > current JVMs still have a hard time detecting tail recursions and it > > lacks data structures that do lazy evaluation in the Java SE. > > There's a way around that, and it's called Clojure. It compiles to JVM > bytecode and has both lazy lists and a special operator for doing tail > recursion (the compiler turns it into an iteration). I'm afraid the syntax of Scala suits me better - but then again, we were talking about Java anyway. Kind regards, Wanja -- ..Alesi's problem was that the back of the car was jumping up and down dangerously - and I can assure you from having been teammate to Jean Alesi and knowing what kind of cars that he can pull up with, when Jean Alesi says that a car is dangerous - it is. [Jonathan Palmer] --- Posted via news://freenews.netfront.net/ - Complaints to news@netfront.net ---