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From: Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte-dot-net.invalid>
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Subject: Re: new Java lambda syntax
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 02:00:00 +0200
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On 12/09/2011 00:07, Joshua Cranmer allegedly wrote:
> 
> List<Runnable> runners = new LinkedList<Runnable>();
> for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
>   runners.add(() => { System.out.println("Value of i is " + i); });
> }
> for (Runnable r : runners) {
>   r.run();
> }

Beg your pardon, I haven't followed this issue as closely as I probably
have should, but does this all mean lambdas are always Runnables? Never
Callable<T>s? IOW, no return values?

-- 
DF.
Determinism trumps correctness.