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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...