Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The goal of a lambda expression in Java is to implement a single method. All Java methods have ...

The discussion on the lambda-dev mailing list has started to address the issue of what the Java language syntax for lambdas / function literals ought to look like. Let’s look at a slightly non-trivial ...

LAMBDA defines the custom logic, and SCAN moves that logic through your data range.

Before LAMBDA was introduced to Excel, you'd need to know how to use VBA or macros to create your own function. However, today, Excel's LAMBDA tool lets you do this using familiar Excel language and ...

What is lambda? You may know that it’s the eleventh letter in the Greek alphabet. Perhaps you recall from Physics that it’s the symbol used to represent wavelength in calculations, or you might have ...

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 ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Vivek Yadav, an engineering manager from ...

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 good old days, coders asking how to do X in C were told "this is how you do it." Now we say "wouldn't it be nice if we could," with a realistic chance of having it happen. As Java coders, we ...