:: (double colon) operator in Java 8

Question

I was exploring the Java 8 source and found this particular part of code very surprising:

//defined in IntPipeline.java
@Override
public fin         


        

Answer 1

return reduce(Math::max); is NOT EQUAL to return reduce(max());

But it means, something like this:

IntBinaryOperator myLambda = (a, b)->{(a >= b) ? a : b};//56 keystrokes I had to type -_-
return reduce(myLambda);

You can just save 47 keystrokes if you write like this

return reduce(Math::max);//Only 9 keystrokes ^_^