Well, my comment was more about it being a bit funny as an opening example to be described as expressive and efficient -- given how overly namespaced and partit

Well, my comment was more about it being a bit funny as an opening example to be described as expressive and efficient -- given how overly namespaced and partitioned the presentation of the API is. I can appreciate its essentially a desugared version of what you'd usually write. The JEP doesnt need to be positioned to defend this API to outsiders, but the opening part appears to do that -- but then, imv, oddly offers this example in the course of doing so.