[PRL] Of course our programming language can do this

Doug Orleans dougorleans at gmail.com
Wed Aug 2 12:43:27 EDT 2006


Mitchell Wand writes:
 > Java required you to create a whole object with a single method called a
 > functor if you wanted to treat a function like a first class object. Combine
 > that with the fact that many OO languages want you to create a whole file
 > for each class, and it gets really klunky fast.

Does Joel Spolsky really not know about anonymous inner classes in
Java or is he being disingenuous here?

--dougorleans at gmail.com



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