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From: Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid>
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Subject: Re: new Java lambda syntax
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 21:24:53 -0500
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On 9/12/2011 7:00 PM, Daniele Futtorovic wrote:
> On 12/09/2011 00:07, Joshua Cranmer allegedly wrote:
>>
>> List<Runnable>  runners = new LinkedList<Runnable>();
>> for (int i = 0; i<  10; i++) {
>>    runners.add(() =>  { System.out.println("Value of i is " + i); });
>> }
>> for (Runnable r : runners) {
>>    r.run();
>> }
>
> Beg your pardon, I haven't followed this issue as closely as I probably
> have should, but does this all mean lambdas are always Runnables? Never
> Callable<T>s? IOW, no return values?

No, I just opted for Runnable here because it was simple.


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