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So apparently Sun has decided to add closures to Java 7. They will, of course, not remove anything to make room, so Java just gets bigger and bulkier. They will also give us a half-hearted implementation that removes some interesting pieces that would make it backwards incompatible, so we're getting really aren't closures after all. Did Sun learn nothing from the generics debacle? More...