Re: Dummy

[Florian Weimer <someone@deneb.cygnus.argh.org>]

Hyman Rosen <hymie@prolifics.com> writes:

> class a
> {
> 	interface i
> 	{
> 		int get();
> 		void set(int n);
> 	}
> 	i local_ref()
> 	{
> 		int local;
> 		return new i {
> 			int get() { return local; }
> 			void set(int n) { local = n; }
> 		};
> 	}
> 	static void main(String[] v)
> 	{
> 		i i1 = local_ref();
> 		i i2 = local_ref();
> 		i1.set(3);
> 		i2.set(4);
> 		System.out.println(i1.get());
> 		System.out.println(i2.get());
> 	}
> }

This prints `3' and `4', doesn't it?  Cool.  I didn't know that Java
supports class closures.  Now Java only needs operator overloading
and some syntactic sugar for dispatching by name and introspection,
and Java will become my favorite scripting language. ;)