I'm wondering how easily Groovy will retrofit Java 8 lambdas when they come out. Groovy uses syntax {a,b-> a++;a+b} for closures, whereas Java 8 uses synt

I'm wondering how easily Groovy will retrofit Java 8 lambdas when they come out. Groovy uses syntax {a,b-> a++;a+b} for closures, whereas Java 8 uses syntax (a,b)->{a++;a+b} Also Groovy uses delegates to make its closures dynamically scoped, whereas Java 8 uses lazy evaluation for its lambdas. They're incompatible, both syntax and semantics.