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groovy2shoes
on Nov 5, 2011
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Eclipse launches new language to cut down Java boi...
You don't have to assume that they actually mean anonymous functions. There's no real reason why the Xtend compiler couldn't translate closures to Java objects.
itsnotvalid
on Nov 7, 2011
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But by closure I usually refer to the definition of some Lisp books:
>> a closure is a collection of closed-over variables retained by a function.
I don't really dig deep for what the constructs would produce in memory, but they should be some lambda expression.
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