In Java 7 it was pretty trivial to create a closure with an anonymous class and ...

		tootie on Sept 6, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Scala founder: Language due for 'fundamental rethi... In Java 7 it was pretty trivial to create a closure with an anonymous class and if that anonymous class implemented Callable or Runnable it was effectively a lambda with strong types.