LJC Lambdas Hackday

[Brian Goetz]

> 4. When trying to lambda-ise cassandra it became clear that frequently
> you have a list that has multiple responsibilities.  If you were to
> lambda-ise it, then you’d split things out into multiple calls and
> chain them together.  This means that in many cases there will be some
> refactoring needed in order to introduce lambda usage.  Some people
> commented that in their workplace the risk of changing reliably
> working code outweighs the potential benefits that you’re providing.
> Perhaps there’s no good way to address this issue - I certainly have
> no suggestions other than getting people to write clean code with high
> test coverage so they can easily refactor.

Were there examples where you felt "It *should* be easy to lambda-ize 
this, but I can't figure out how?"  These would be useful examples to 
discuss here.