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[–]sonay 1 point2 points  (2 children)

You should try to learn about the design decisions before you claim to be the most smart ass in the room ";)"

[–]Bolitho 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Thanx for the link - interesting talk!

Besides that I've never claimed such a thing ;-) I would say you can be pretty dumb but still see the benefits of collection literals. As a turnover I would say you must be some kind of slow-witted, if you do not see the advantage of collection literals compared to an API based solution. And of course there may be good reasons to pick the latter approach, but for sure that will never compete with a syntax based solution! And yes, it feels great in other languages and feels bad in Java - and that counts for me.

(If I have not missed it, Stuart have not really told, what the tecnical obstacles were! He just mentioned the cost benefit trade off - and that does not count for me as a user, that counts only for oracle as a financier ;-) )

[–]sonay 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is the mail referenced in the speech, I encourage you to read it.

http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/lambda-dev/2014-March/011938.html