JAVAWUG BOF 35 Closures in Java - Comparing The Choices - Stephen Colebourne March 3, 2008

[ANN] JAVAWUG BOF 35 Closures in Java - Comparing The Choices :: London, UK :: 03-Mar-2008

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Hi

Here is the announcement for JAVAWUG BOF 35 Closures in Java - Comparing The Choices with Stephen Colebourne.
This event will taking place at Skills Matter, London on Monday 3rd March 2008 from 6:30pm - 8pm.

Talk:

Subject: Closures in Java - Comparing the choices

Speakers: Stephen Colebourne, Sun Java Champion

Abstract:

'Closures' are one of the hottest topics in the Java community right now. The debate is over whether some form of closures would be a useful and worthwhile addition to the Java programming language in version 7.

This talk will explain what a closure is and compare the three main proposals - BGGA, FCM and CICE. After attending you will be able to form your own opinions on whether Java should be changed, and which proposal is the way to go.

Biography

* Java Champion
* Co-author, FCM closures
* Regular contributor to Java language change debate
* Conference speaker
* Co-spec lead, JSR-310, Date and Time API
* Project lead, Joda-Time
* Member, Apache Software Foundation
* http://jroller.com/scolebourne

References

* BGGA = Gilad Bracha, Neal Gafter, James Gosling and Peter von der Ahé

Proposal http://www.javac.info/closures-v05.html
Main Page http://www.javac.info/

* FCM = First Class Methods by Stephen Colebourne and Stefan Schulz

Proposal http://docs.google.com/View?docid=ddhp95vd_0f7mcns

* CICE = Concise Instance Creation Expressions by Bob Lee, Doug Lea and Josh Bloch

Proposal http://docs.google.com/View?docid=k73_1ggr36h

For more info
http://www.jroller.com/javawug/entry/javawug_bof_35_closures_in

For registration
http://skillsmatter.com/javawug

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