Your "fugly syntax extension" is your old friend the closure. The syntax is as good as its going to get in an Algol derivative. I'll take it over plain java any

Your "fugly syntax extension" is your old friend the closure. The syntax is as good as its going to get in an Algol derivative. I'll take it over plain java any day of the week. If Kotlin takes off on Android then we'll have a real contest.