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contravariant on March 21, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Please put units in names

I'll never quite understand why it wasn't simply a function in the first place.

dtech on March 21, 2022 [–]

Java pre-8 only had anonymous classes, there were no lambdas

fiddlerwoaroof on March 21, 2022 | [–]

And Java lambdas are still syntax sugar for one-method anonymous classes.

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