Closures in Java

Another post with links.

From Debasish blog, a link to Gilad Bracha's blog entry (with some nice comments)
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One question that naturally arises is "what took you so long?".
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Since the late 90s, I've brought the topic up now and again. At times, even I have reluctantly been convinced that it is too late, because we've done so many things that would have been easy with closures in different ways. This means the benefits aren't as high as in a language like Scheme, or Self, or Smalltalk. The cost is non-trivial, to be sure.

Pick from the comments:

SUN never cared to implement Closures in Java.The reason why they are caring about now is Microsoft introduced them in C#.

So the funda is IF YOU WANT A NEW FEATURE IN JAVA DONT ASK SUN,(ITS TIME WASTE), BETTER ASK MICROSOFT, ONCE MS IMPLEMENTS THAT FEATURE IN THEIR LANGUAGE, THE NEXT YEAR SUN WILL CONSIDER THAT FEATURE. (This is also the quickest way of getting your favourite feature in JAVA).

(1st enums, support for dynamic languages, now closures...) :D

And a link to jaggregate examples.