Integrating lambda expressions into your methods is easy. The trick is in recognizing when to use them. And that means understanding when the strategy and factory method patterns are going to make ...

That's a disadvantage because VB developers may never become familiar with the syntax that allows you to dynamically wire up an event at runtime. C# developers are familiar with that syntax from the ...

In the technical keynote address for JavaOne 2013, Mark Reinhold, chief architect for the Java Platform Group at Oracle, described lambda expressions as the single largest upgrade to the Java ...

Before Java SE 8, anonymous classes were typically used to pass functionality to a method. This practice obfuscated source code, making it harder to understand. Java 8 eliminated this problem by ...

Java 8 is into the wild and it brings along a number of new and useful features like lambda expressions and the streams API. Java 8 is out the gate. It’s big step forward for embedded applications, ...

I think you just need to check whether the second element of your lambda is an atom or a list. If it's a list, you have fixed arity, if it's an atom you have variable arity.<BR><BR>Then you do the ...

The delays are over, the final approvals are in, and the general availability release of the Java Platform, Standard Edition, 8 (Java SE 8) is right around the corner. What has been called a ...

A lot of programming languages these days feature lambda functions, or what I would be just as happy to call anonymous functions. Some people make a big deal out of these but the core idea is very ...