Named code blockes

[D-Man]

On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 04:49:01PM -0700, James_Althoff at i2.com wrote:
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| <jim response>
| 
| In Java unnamed (anonymous, inner) classes
| are used all over the place in Swing-GUI code.
| Not advocating -- just pointing it out.  :-)
| 
| </jim response>

IMO that is a kludge to work-around for a significant language
deficiency -- if functions (and classes) were first-class objects the
function object itself could be passed as the event handler!

-D