Re: Java is going to have closures.


David Steuber wrote:
I don't think it matters what language features are adopted. One of
the things that makes Lisp special is the development environment.
You're in a running Lisp session and dynamically adding and changing
definitions. You can even break the execution of a Lisp session and
make changes from in the debugger.

Until you can do that with Java, it won't be the same.

You can, if you use Eclipse.

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