Comments on: Closing over context still not easy in mainstream languages, Film at 11

by: Jaimir Guerrero

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:03:27 +0000

c# 3.0 lambda expression is:

ob.GetType().FindInterfaces((iface, criteria) => iface.FullName == criteria.ToString(), typeof(IMapas).FullName);

by: Luke

Tue, 11 Sep 2007 15:39:59 +0000

This method was around during C# 1.0, when there were no closures. An alternative to what you have shown would be to have FindInterfaces take a class instance (common for Java IIRC). If this method were updated for C# 2.0+, it could simply take a Predicate. You should probably aim your criticism at Java. :-p C# 3.0 syntax would look like this:

someType.FindInterfaces(iface => iface.Name == "IFoolishness");

Pretty readable if you ask me!

by: matthew

Tue, 11 Sep 2007 13:58:02 +0000

We need a eugenics program for software developers…

by: mikeb

Tue, 11 Sep 2007 12:32:36 +0000

Yes, it's comical, but why do you think it is so?

Take a look at the resistance to introducing things like lambda forms to JavaScript; for example, at http://ejohn.org/blog/javascript-18-progress/ :

"All new stuffs since JS1.7 make javascript code less and less readable and comprehensible by a “normal” developer ..."

"I think the “new style” of coding is hard to read, understand and debug ..."

.. and that's /JavaScript/.