java is not very composable

May 24, 2014 18:29

Does anyone know why it is that in Java 8 List.replaceAll doesn't return the list in question (post replacement (or even better, with lazy evaluation waiting to happen ( Read more... )

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danceboy May 25 2014, 00:42:48 UTC
Well, yes, but lambdas are specifically an attempt to get away from that. They offer no new functionality at all; they're just syntactic sugar for anonymous inner classes.

I'm not sure if I should be claiming to be old and to have grown up with lisp, and "all you kids today", or if I should be claiming to be young, and how I actually have seen a real live functional language in the wild...

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