On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 06:54:58PM +0100, Andreas Rossberg wrote:
> Martin Berger wrote:
> >
> >wouldn't you say that the lack of real closures is a consequence
> >of java's lack of a proper function space arrow, rather than a
> >separate issue? i don't see how you could have ocaml's full --->
> >without real closures, but maybe i'm missing something.
> 
> In Java, inner classes could give you (a clumsy form of) closures as 
> well, but they don't (since they may not capture non-static variables).

Yes they can, though only if the variables are declared final (for
obvious reasons). See JLS 8.1.2:

	Any local variable, formal method parameter or exception
	handler parameter used but not declared in an inner class must
	be declared final, [...]


Lauri Alanko
la@iki.fi

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