There’s a lot of confusion about “functions” in Java. Java doesn’t really have them, but an object could represent a function so it kind of does have them. I try to explain the different meanings of “functions” in Java, other languages and in mathematics.
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Functional Programming in Java 8
Functional Programming made easy!
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Why a Consumer is not a Function.
java.util.function.Consumer
does not extend java.util.function.Function
. But what if you want a set of both types? Why isn’t there a ConsumerFunction?
A ConsumerFunction is not defined in java.util.function
. You can easily do it yourself. But you will see that it’s not that simple. void
is a keyword in Java. There is a class Void
and (by reflection) you can even get an instance of Void
. But you have to use a return statement to get a Function
.