A lambda is an expression that acts as an anonymous function. Use this tag if you would like to discuss the appropriateness of a lambda or anonymous function in your code.
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Writing strings to the screen over time
The following methods just write strings to the screen over time to make it look like a typing effect, instead of all at once. The only difference is the argument in the ...
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JavaFX await implementation
I'm debating trying to take a crack at getting something similar to C#'s async-co-routine like nature over on JavaFX.
This is technically feasible since the Quantem toolkit exposes the ...
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Write Once Use Everywhere: Multidimensional array traversal
I have a structure that is organized much like a Sudoku board, where individual cells reside in an n x n region, and those regions reside in an n x n area. I need to be able to address both the ...
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Read a txt file and split into 2 csvs based on regex
So I have been told that my code is not good and needs refactoring. I'm struggling to see what I need to do. How do I specify the success and failure conditions for lambda? Also don't get what the ...
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Use an optionally passed-in block without repeating yourself
I need to open and read several files for a project. Some of them are plain text files, and I just want a standard File.open to read from. One of them is an XML ...
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Checking whether a list is sorted, ascending or descending
What is the best way to conditionally use an operator? All 3 methods seemed acceptable to me, and the last 2 better.
If you're curious: I've got a list which is unsorted, and many other lists which ...
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Lambda to collect properties in a child object
I have a class:
public class ProductInvoice {
//Some other properties.
private List<ProductEntry> productEntries = newArrayList();
//otherMethods
}
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Filtering units by a dynamic Lambda expression
I have a simple if statement which, based on user input, determines which expression is going to be utilized. It looks like it can be done better.
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Routing Java objects using conditional consumers
As per a previous question here and answers I got, I used it to get a new implementation. I found that I have to make two implementations match once "to ignore other consumers after matching once" and ...
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Mandelbrot Streams
A recent Mandelbrot question (Hi @EBrown) in C# inspired me to build my own using the Java 8 parallel streams to implement the parallelism that's useful for computing each pixel value.
The intention ...
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Function for timing executions (inspired by MATLAB tic toc)
Inspired by MATLAB's tic/toc I've written a short helper function for calculating execution time.
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Generic method to pass lambda expressions performed on DTO's to Entity Framework
The following are generic methods that I use to perform lambda queries on DTO objects. The main method applies the expression to entities and returns DTO objects mapped from the entities (entities ...
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Return lambda expression based on parameters
This function returns a lambda expression based on the parameters sent. I am sure there is a better way to do this.
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Duplicate words in a text
Here is a simplified implementation to obtain the duplicate words in a text using lambda expressions.
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Event-listener implementation
While writing a C++ GUI application more or less from scratch I needed some form of an event-listener system, preferably using lambdas. An event should be able to have multiple listeners and the user ...
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Sort files by the type of file
I need to sort files by the type of the File. To accomplish the task I first wrote the code below:
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Catch all checked exceptions and turn into unchecked exception
I am currently trying to learn Lambdas and following the book Java SE8 for the really Impatient and just finished Chapter 1 of it. This is the question, I am trying to get done with:
Didn’t you ...
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Proper checked exception handling with lambda functions
I'm having trouble finding a clean way to handle checked exceptions thrown by a lambda function passed as a parameter in Java.
I'm writing a Client which will interact via RMI with a Server to play a ...
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Repetitive code for a projected field in a lambda
I have a simple projection in my code. Taking away the majority of the fields which are not of interest, it looks like the following:
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Optimize method to iterate to over Map<String, List<Object>>
I have a Map<String, List<Object>> multiFieldMap and I need to iterate over its value set and add the value to ...
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Multiple functions to establish a fallback value for a property until not null
I have a property (called "Head") that can be set externally. When "Head" is not set, it uses Unity3D's MonoBehaviour functions to try to find the best value for ...
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Printing removed items using lambdas and streams
I'm struggling to make my lambdas readable.
I've seen various approaches. Below are three different examples that all do the same thing.
Forgive the example: I suspect there are better actual ...
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Comparing triangles using Java 8 streams
I'm trying to get more familiar with Java 8 streams as they seem to be very powerful (and shorter), so I rewrote a method to use streams. However I'm not very satisfied with it and would like some ...
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Asynchronous connect() with one function call, using C++11 lambdas and Boost.Asio
I've wanted to write a C++11 class for making IPv4 TCP connections and figured that it probably could be done with just one static function using some shared_ptr and lambda "magic". The following code ...
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Simple calculator implemented with lambdas
I was searching for a way to exercise the Java 8 concepts I've been learning, especially pertaining to Lambdas. Incidentally, I hadn't used any swing in a while and wanted a refresher. This is the ...
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The Beauty and the Strings
This originally appeared in Facebook's hacker cup 2013. Solving it was fun, though I find myself looping through similar data quite often.
Challenge:
Print the maximum beauty of strings.
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Java 8 CompletableFuture - fan out implementation
I was wondering what is the best way to implement a fan out type of functionality with Java 8 Completable future. I recently rewrote a function that had a bunch of old ...
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Using LINQ or Lambda instead of nested and multiple foreach statements
I want to use a better syntax than nested foreach statements to overwrite the initial list with items from the second list.
In the code below:
I want to ...
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Sending duplicate to heaven with Java 8
Follow up to Duplicate like a weapon, arrays like heaven.
@rolfl suggested in chat that I try to complete this challenge again in a Java 8 friendly way. I took the opportunity to also employ the ...
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Effective use of branch prediction in terrain generator
I am trying to learn how branch optimization works.
For an experiment, I have a recursive fractal terrain generation and I have moved all if statements to binary ...
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Parallel for loop in Java - follow-up 2
The previous iteration at Parallel for loop in Java 8 - follow-up.
The changes are as follows:
MyTask is removed.
Synchronization removed. Now the user is ...
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Parallel for loop in Java 8 - follow-up
The previous and initial iteration at Parallel for loop in Java 8.
Changes are as follows:
ParallelLoopBody removed; ...
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Parallel for loop in Java 8
This is my first attempt to provide some syntactic sugar for doing mutually independent loop iterations in parallel. Thanks to Java 8 lambdas, I can write the parallel loops in pretty elegant fashion ...
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How can I avoid repeated code using lambdas?
I have a method which should accept a Function/Action and do something with that method (in my case I've added retry logic).
I'm wondering how I can remove the duplicated code (for loop, etc) from ...
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Generic Timing Class - Follow Up
I wrote a class which can time and compare functions.
I already posted it here once before, and got great suggestions from @rolfl, which I have added to my code.
my original question can be found ...
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Conditional statements with doctor and patient information
I'm focusing on trying to write clean, modular Python 2.7.5 code.
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Displaying information about people from a JSON file
I'm working with Python 2.7.5 and I have written the following code:
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Generic Timing Class
I have written a class which can time functions, and I'd like to have it reviewed. I'm interested in everything (better naming and commenting, accuracy of measurement, usability, structure, use of ...
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Collatz conjecture using Java lambdas
Take any natural number n. If n is even, divide it by 2 to get n / 2. If n is odd, multiply it by 3 and add 1 to obtain 3*n* + 1. Repeat the process (which has been called "Half Or Triple Plus ...
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Too much fun with EnumMap-related features and lambdas?
I have an utility class to handle EnumMap-related features, such as creating/converting between Object -> Enum and ...
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Shady Characters
As part of my familiarization with the features of Java 8, and inspired by this question, I thought I would take the 'Shady Character' problem to 'the next level'.
The basic problem is that you have ...
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Group by two lists in one map using lambda
I've got two collections: collection of rules, and collection of keys that can handle specific rules. Key have method ...
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Pokemon Type Evaluator part 2
I started anew and completely refactored the way I implemented Pokemon Type Evaluator.
Also, first use of a lambda expression (Case of using it, but still don't fully grasp how it's working). I'm ...
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A method that generates a Comparator<String> using lambda expression
Given below is an exercise from the book *Java SE 8 for the Really Impatient( by Cay S. Horstmann:
Write a method that generates a Comparator that can be normal or
reversed, case-sensitive or ...
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Is there better way to shorten this Lambda expression's result selector?
I'm new in LINQ and Lambda expression. I'm not sure is there a way to shorten the result on this o.z.cust.cust.cust.bintAccountNo. As you can see below, the more ...
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EF6-Lambda Expressions deep big-tree query
I am looking to improve the following query.
We are using EF6 (CodeFirst) and C# Lambda Expressions, and Repository/Unit of Work patterns. Also, we needed to restrict the query in a way that we ...
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Platform independant thread pool v3
This is a continuation of this question, v4 can be found here
Taking the advise given previously, the deadlock was fixed in the non-yielding code. The next problem comes from the suggestion to make ...
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Refactor Oracle Entity Framework lambda query
I had a ugly problem and wrote an ugly query.
Query creates a cache that is used to get person id when I have {full_name, id_code?, birth_date?}. By question mark I mean that it is perfectly valid ...
