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Been coding Java since 98 and am baffled at how all of this new co plexity is making my life easier. Closures maybe, but the rest of this article just felt so _
by rkalla 14y ago
Been coding Java since 98 and am baffled at how all of this new co plexity is making my life easier. Closures maybe, but the rest of this article just felt so _theoretically helpful_ and complex, bogged down with cool terms and functional fanciness. I feel old and unhip :(
- norswap 14y agoI'm not all about hip, but closures are mightily useful. The article does a good job of explaining an interesting use of closures. It's not all that complicated either, since it's basically what Unix pipes do: generate a stream of value, filter them, and consume a stream. The article sure doesn't show a practical use, but rather enriches the standard library with useful features, and shows a pattern that can be applied to many practical problems.