Last Wednesday, I blogged about the fact that closures discussion on the Project Lambda mailing list had petered out.
It appears I spoke too soon: on Friday an Oracle engineer posted a substantive strawman proposal, and followed it up with another significant document on Monday. These have generated much discussion on the Project Lambda mailing lists, and things seem to be moving again.
Yesterday, Neal Gafter "read the tea leaves" and surmised that Oracle has at least three engineers working on closures.
Its nice to know that the project isn't dead. Of course we still don't know whether the Java 7 schedule will slip to accommodate closures or if closures will be postponed for a later release. So the "not likely" assessment from my original post still stands.
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