who the hell added lambdas to Java but didn't add map/reduce… pump.strugee.net/alex/note/N…
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I thought there were map, filter, fold etc variants.
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I wish. Certainly there aren't instance methods on e.g. ArrayList.
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Replying to @strugee2
Bummer :( Can you do anything akin to patching a class in Java?

Mar 18, 2018 Β· 2:13 PM UTC

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Replying to @dsilverstone
no, Java's truly classical (which I believe is the opposite of prototypal?) Classes aren't live objects. They're a syntax construction only :/
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Aah, fair enough. So you'd need to develop a wrapper class, or else a class of 'Functools' full of static methods I guess
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