It will take years if not decades for these things to seep into regular programming practice in the Java world. I still see people writing for(i = 0; i <

It will take years if not decades for these things to seep into regular programming practice in the Java world. I still see people writing for(i = 0; i < something; i++) { } Java could get cleaner, but habits die/change when programmers retire not when Java makes new releases.