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Subject: Re: are lambdas a way to bring functional programming to java?
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On 6/30/2014 8:50 AM, Roedy Green wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Jun 2014 12:11:43 +0200, Joerg Meier <joergmmeier@arcor.de>
> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :
>
>> There is no speed advantage to lamdas.
>
> 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?
>

I think lambdas have some additional restrictions over anonymous 
classes.  You could say that one can think of them that way as a kind of 
introductory description.  But you probably should try to explain the 
differences too.