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Re: new Java lambda syntax

From	Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject	Re: new Java lambda syntax
Date	2011-09-15 21:58 +0100
Organization	Eindhoven University of Technology
Message-ID	<alpine.DEB.2.00.1109152154360.4501@urchin.earth.li> (permalink)
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On Tue, 13 Sep 2011, supercalifragilisticexpialadiamaticonormalizeringelimatisticantations wrote:

> On 13/09/2011 4:29 PM, Tom Anderson wrote:
>> Basically, lambdas can be either method-like (they return values from
>> themselves) or statement-like (they return values from their enclosing
>> methods).
>
> Smalltalk blocks can do both. The usual return operator ^foo returns foo from 
> the enclosing method, but the if the block doesn't do a nonlocal return or 
> exception throw of any kind it evaluates to a value which is equal to that 
> resulting from the last expression inside of it.

I should have known that reaching for a third example was going to get me 
in trouble! Thanks for the correction. Really, it should have been 
obvious, given that, as you say, Smalltalk uses methods on its boolean 
type (and on blocks evaluating to a boolean?) taking blocks to implement 
its control structures.

tom

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see im down wid yo sci fi crew

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