Bitten by the lambda parameter name

[Remi Forax]

On 07/17/2013 12:40 AM, maurizio cimadamore wrote:
> On 16-Jul-13 11:17 PM, Dan Smith wrote:
>> >   StringBuilder builder = createText(StringBuilder.class, builder 
>> -> builder.append("name"));
> What is this meant to replace exactly? It's a shorthand for:
>
> StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();
> builder.append("name");
>
> ?
>
> Maurizio

Again, I'm not sure why this is interesting to know exactly what the 
code does,
Anyway, the code of createText allows you to create a mutable object by 
reflection, to initialize it and when you get the result,
you have the guarantee that you can never see the object half initialized.

Rémi