On Sunday, June 22, 2014 11:35:25 AM UTC-5, Herwig Hochleitner wrote: > > 2014-06-22 9:12 GMT+02:00 Reid McKenzie <rmcke...@gmail.com <javascript:>> > : > >> >> since there's no other way that we can take a >> function "as a value" prior to JVM 1.8 which has bytecode lambdas and >> which the reference Clojure implementation doesn't leverage yet if ever. >> > > Java 8 gained no such feature. Lambda expressions are syntax sugar for > almost the thing, clojure's fn does: Instantiating an anonymous inner class > for an interface with a single arity. > The only concept that jvm has of a first class function, are the > interfaces in java.util.function, as of Java 8 >
I think (but would be happy to be corrected) that Java 8 lambdas *are* actually a little different than an anonymous class instantiation. Specifically, I believe the lambda is created via an invokeDynamic and cached at the call site, whereas the anonymous class instance would be constructed every time. Alex -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
