Path: csiph.com!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!news.netfront.net!not-for-mail From: Wanja Gayk Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: are lambdas a way to bring functional programming to java? Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2014 20:46:04 +0200 Organization: Netfront http://www.netfront.net/ Lines: 28 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 77.177.53.89 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: adenine.netfront.net 1404240338 22099 77.177.53.89 (1 Jul 2014 18:45:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@netfront.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2014 18:45:38 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: MicroPlanet-Gravity/3.0.4 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:28889 In article , Wanja Gayk (brixomatic@yahoo.com) says... [..] > > Would it be a reasonable thing to say that a lambda is just a terser > > way to implement an instance of a one-use anonymous class that has a > > single method? > > Not quite, even though it looks a lot like it was. [..] > http://medianetwork.oracle.com/video/player/2623576348001 > I found it pretty interesting. Sorry, that rather focussed on today's Lambda performance. This one gives a better overview over the differences to anonymous classes: http://medianetwork.oracle.com/video/player/1785479333001 Kind regards, Wanja -- ..Alesi's problem was that the back of the car was jumping up and down dangerously - and I can assure you from having been teammate to Jean Alesi and knowing what kind of cars that he can pull up with, when Jean Alesi says that a car is dangerous - it is. [Jonathan Palmer] --- news://freenews.netfront.net/ - complaints: news@netfront.net ---