Lambda Expression definitions

Original please indicate the source: https://www.cnblogs.com/agilestyle/p/11910388.html

 

A lambda expression can be understood as a concise representation of an anonymous function that can be passed around: it doesn’t have a name, but it has a list of parameters, a body, a return type, and also possibly a list of exceptions that can be thrown. That’s one big definition;

let’s break it down:

• Anonymous— We say anonymous because it doesn’t have an explicit name like a method would normally have: less to write and think about!
• Function— We say function because a lambda isn’t associated with a particular class like a method is.But like a method, a lambda has a list of parameters, a body, a return type, and a possible list of exceptions that can be thrown.
• Passed around— A lambda expression can be passed as argument to a method or stored in a variable.
• Concise— You don’t need to write a lot of boilerplate like you do for anonymous classes.

 

ThreadTest.java

 1 package org.fool.test.fp;
 2 
 3 public class ThreadTest {
 4     public static void main(String[] args) {
 5         new Thread(new Runnable() {
 6             @Override
 7             public void run() {
 8                 System.out.println(Thread.currentThread().getName());
 9             }
10         }).start();
11 
12         new Thread(() -> System.out.println(Thread.currentThread().getName())).start();
13     }
14 }

 

Reference

Manning.Java.8.in.Action.Lambdas.Streams.and.functional-style.programming.Aug.2014