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From: Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Java 8 closures vs. anonymous inner classes
Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2013 13:28:45 -0800
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On Wed, 04 Dec 2013 20:07:42 +0100, Sebastian
<news@seyweiler.dyndns.org> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone
who said :

>This is quite a bit more than what I'd call "syntactic sugar".

What that means is, if you looked a the JVM byte codes generated, it
would look identical to some code written using anonymous inner
classes. 

see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/syntacticsugar.html
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