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The Java Workshop
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The Java Workshop

by David Cuartielles, Pradeep Kumar Gupta, Scott Cosentino, Andreas Göransson, Eric Foster-Johnson, Avinash Kate
October 2019
Beginner
606 pages
10h 37m
English
Packt Publishing
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13. Functional Programming with Lambda Expressions

Overview

This chapter discusses how Java doubles up as a functional programming language. It also details the manner in which lambda expressions are used to perform pattern matching in Java. It accomplishes this, first, by explaining, in general terms, the difference between Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) and Functional Programming (FP). You will then learn the basic definition of a pure function, as well as the difference between functional and normal interfaces. And, finally, you practice employing lambda expressions as callbacks to events and using them to filter data.

Introduction

While Java has been around for over 20 years now, and Functional Programming (FP) has been around for ...

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ISBN: 9781838986698