In Java, the potential of lazy evaluation is quite neglected (actually, at the language level, it’s pretty much limited to the implementation of minimal evaluation) – advanced languages like Scala, for example, differentiate between call-by-value and call-by-name calls, or introduce dedicated keywords like lazy.
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While everyone’s busy with modularity, local-variable-type-inference, and other Next Big Things of recent JDK releases, there’s a fairly small and important update for the ForkJoinPool that deserves some attention.
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Kotlin’s Collections API is extremely versatile and expressive but there’s one important thing to be aware of especially when migrating from Java.
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