Abstract

The design of Java sports a simple and elegant object model. Its simplicity may well be the language's main selling point---it is both easy to learn and to implement---but in the long run the same simplicity may prove to be a sign of a lack of expressive power that could hinder the development of large software systems. We present four non-intrusive language extensions, tuples, closures, anonymous objects and iterators, give examples of use and detail a translation scheme into plain Java. These extensions enhance the expressive power of Java and allow certain common programming idioms to be coded more naturally.

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