What I was trying to say was that maybe if you are not a great programmer well rounded in the programming pantheon, it will be more of a revelation to you. As

What I was trying to say was that maybe if you are not a great programmer well rounded in the programming pantheon, it will be more of a revelation to you. As a perl/php/java guy it took a while for closures to sink in for me, that it's more niftiness involved than just a callback function. If one already knows how to use an anonymous class it's no biggie I admit, but if you don't it is :).