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"A closure is an object that supports exactly one method: 'apply'." -- Guy Steele

• HumanDrivenDev 8y ago
  In some languages they also have methods like 'curry', which further blurs the lines.
• jimbokun 8y ago
  Too bad it took the Java language committee forever to figure out they can just use lambda syntax to make those objects look like functions.
  • pjmlp 8y ago
    When you have too many cooks and care about keeping backwards compatibility, things take time.