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Along with lambdas, Java SE 8 brought method references to the Java language. This tutorial offers a brief overview of method references in Java, then gets you started using them with Java code ...

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Extensible applications allow you to add functionality without rewriting your application: you dynamically select the classes that make up your application at runtime rather than design time. I once ...

Anonymous functions were introduced in the C# programming language long ago. Although anonymous functions have many benefits, they are not cheap. Avoiding unnecessary allocations matters, and this is ...