Go rant

[retard]

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 12:24:50 +0000, Peter C. Chapin wrote:

> retard <re at tard.com.invalid> wrote in
> news:hg8ppr$107b$4 at digitalmars.com:
> 
>> That's not the only problem in JVM. Languages are getting more and more
>> functional these days and many enterprise Java projects use ad-hoc
>> single method interfaces to emulate lambdas.
> 
> I've been using Scala (http://www.scala-lang.org/) a fair about
> recently. It's a function/OO hybrid language on the JVM that supports
> closures, etc. It's actually quite nice in a number of respects, I have
> no idea what kind of hoops the Scala implementors had to jump through to
> get it to work, though. I do know that compiling a typical Scala file
> generates a bunch of .class files with weirdo names so they are
> definitely creating quite a few auxillary classes behind the scenes to
> get things done.

Most likely they have will have to wrap lambdas inside some kind of 
Function objects. I've read that even Scala would benefit from a more 
functional friendly VM. But Sun's focus is on JavaFX and dynamic 
languages now..