Java for Everything

Re:Java for Everything by msluyter on Sunday November 30, 2014 @05:44PM (#8678499)

shrug. This seems like a pretty standard use of the ternary operator to me. I mean, just google examples of Comparator, and you'll find tons of examples like this:

   @Override
   public int compareTo(Object arg0) {
       Country country=(Country) arg0;
       return (this.countryId < country.countryId ) ? -1:
              (this.countryId > country.countryId ) ? 1:0 ;

   }

(http://www.javacodegeeks.com/2013/03/difference-between-comp...)

But that's orthogonal to my point, which is that lambdas offer significant improvements to readability because they remove the irrelevant cruft and simplify the code.

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Re:Java for Everything by jbergens on Tuesday December 02, 2014 @06:31AM (#8686612)

And lambdas (or similar) has existed in C#, Python, Scala, Javascript and other languages for years. I still thinks this means that those languages has had large benefits compared to Java (7 and older). Now that Java 8 has lambdas even Java developers can learn to write better and more readable code. I also thinks that Java 8 is good enough for most projects now but Java 7 wasn't. Just my thinking.

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Re:Java for Everything by Igglyboo on Sunday November 30, 2014 @06:34PM (#8678680)

I'd have to agree, the GP is very bloated when a simple ternary will suffice.

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