Very exciting! Thanks, Bruno!
Matt
On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Bruno P. Kinoshita <
brunodepau...@yahoo.com.br> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Just wanted to let you guys know that I am successfully compiling and
> executing code using [functor] and Java 8. And am also using [functor]
> functional interfaces with lambdas.
>
> So instead of writing:
>
>
> UnaryPredicate isEven = new UnaryPredicate() {
> public boolean test(Integer obj) {
> return obj % 2 == 0;
> }
> };
>
> One can simply write:
>
> UnaryPredicate isEven = (Integer obj) -> { return obj % 2 == 0; };
>
> FWIW, Google Guava's Predicate [1] is not a functional interface, so it
> cannot be used with lambdas, as in the example above.
>
> I'll continue to experiment with [functor] and Java 8. There are only two
> open issues in Jira, one regarding generators (there's a branch with a
> proposal implementation) and another one about the equals() method in the
> [functor] API.
>
> I wrote a short blog post [2] about how I'm running Java 8 in Eclipse
> Juno, in case anyone is interested in trying it too. The code is hosted at
> GitHub [3].
>
> Cheers,
>
> [1]
> http://code.google.com/p/guava-libraries/source/browse/guava/src/com/google/common/base/Predicate.java
> [2]
> http://www.kinoshita.eti.br/2012/12/21/using-apache-commons-functor-functional-interfaces-with-java-8-lambdas/
> [3] https://github.com/kinow/try-lambdas
> Bruno P. Kinoshita
> http://kinoshita.eti.br
> http://tupilabs.com
>
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