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 ...

To show you an old school, pre-Java 8 UnaryOperator example, we will create a single ... The whole idea of functional programming is to write code that uses very sparse and concise lambda expressions.

A great deal of Java programming -- from conditional statements to iterative ... you're most likely interested in how to use it in a lambda function. The goal of a lambda expression is to reduce the ...