Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Roedy Green Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: new Java lambda syntax Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2011 15:18:59 -0700 Organization: Canadian Mind Products Lines: 19 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Roedy Green NNTP-Posting-Host: RCd/Ul4tyxGUBII8WGwa5g.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 6.00/32.1186 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:7727 On Thu, 08 Sep 2011 13:19:22 -0700, markspace <-@.> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said : > x => x + 1 > (x) => x + 1 That seems backwards to me. Surely you really mean x <= x + 1 But <= is already taken. So you would have to use something like the Algol := or <- or one of the Unicode arrows. -- Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products http://mindprod.com The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. ~ John Kenneth Galbraith (born: 1908-10-15 died: 2006-04-29 at age: 97)