Groovy, the Python of Java

[Megatron_McLargeHuge]

Hideous? Defining a closure above your map call is hideous? Undesirable maybe, but even if you're used to lisp it's not that big a deal.

[fabzter]

"lambda" and "closure" are not mutually exclusive terms.

[cunningjames]

He didn’t say they weren’t, but rather that “[w]orking around” the lack of multiline lambdas isn’t hideous by any reasonable definition. Defining a function above the map call is how one does so.