Probably, (also makes back compatibility to earlier jvms easier). However, I think the authors went for "horrible syntax in examples" so that we have time to th

Probably, (also makes back compatibility to earlier jvms easier). However, I think the authors went for "horrible syntax in examples" so that we have time to think about a final good/decent syntax. See what happened with lambas lots of proposed syntaxes ended up with one decent one. Here they want a discussion by implementers about the technical side and avoid bikeshedding about syntax (for now).