Will I be able to use Clojure functions as Lambdas in Java 8?

Question

I use a number of libraries in Clojure that produce higher order functions that conform to the \"clojure.lang.IFn\" interface.

It has multiple arity overloads, I.e. the

Answer 1

No, it seems you can not use clojure functions as if they are also valid java lambdas. Clojure's IFn does not conform to java's "lambda" functional interfaces as defined.