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If they will be based on anonymous inner classes, then yes, they'll capture the variables from the surrounding scope. Those variables however will be 'final', which means that you …

I see that the proposed lambda expressions can omit type annotations on the parameters. Does that mean that Java 8 will have at least some limited form of type inference?

Two things: this is one of the trolliest posts I have seen on HN on a while, save for my own (now deleted) counter-troll. The fact that it keeps getting upvoted is astounding. Seri…

So that's the justification? That the GIMP expects WM settings that were only the default on TWM and the like over 15 years ago? Well, I must say that I haven't seen any other appl…

I didn't see the word paper anywhere, what do you mean?

PHP is academic?! What definition of academic could you possibly be using?! The blasted thing doesn't even respect basic things like transitivity in its most commonly used equality…

Well, SICP was a printed book before being put on the web (as it is quite a few years older than it), and the version you see on the webpage is just a rendition of it in HTML. Stil…

And conveniently enough for this discussion, this happens to be exercise 1.19 of SICP ( http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-11.html... ).

> Learning to read code is just like learning to read English. You can guess most of the words meaning once you know some of them. Personally, I think being able to read code is th…

> And if you can't read code well, go practice some more. Actually, let's not. To paraphrase a minor celebrity of programming, life is too long to be good at reading every variatio…

It is a good question to ask though, as there are societal pressures against men going into any profession related to children (e.g. the pedophile scare). But asking it _here_ is j…