Do lambda expressions have any use other than saving lines of code?

Question

Do lambda expressions have any use other than saving lines of code?

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Answer 1

Lambdas are just syntactic sugar for anonymous classes.

Before lambdas, anonymous classes can be used to achieve the same thing. Every lambda expression can be converted to an anonymous class.

If you are using IntelliJ IDEA, it can do the conversion for you:

• Put the cursor in the lambda
• Press alt/option + enter