Lambda behaving differently than anonymous inner class

Zhong Yu zhong.j.yu at gmail.com
Wed Mar 26 19:32:57 UTC 2014


Another example:

        Consumer<Integer> c = t -> System.out.println(t++);
        c.accept(2);

no no no no...

Zhong Yu


On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 10:03 AM, Victor Antunes
<victor.antunes.ignacio at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> This e-mail is a follow-up to a question I've posted on StackOverflow:
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22648079/lambda-behaving-differently-than-anonymous-inner-class
>
>
> I'm relatively new to Java, and decided to pick up on lambda since the past
> few days. So I wrote a very simple anonymous inner class and wrote an
> equivalent lambda.
>
> However, the lambda output was different, and it very strongly appears to
> be a bug.
>
> Given:
>
> interface Supplier<T> {
>
>     T get(T t);}
>
> Supplier<Integer> s1 = new Supplier<Integer>() {
>     @Override
>     public Integer get(Integer t) {
>         return t++;
>     }};Supplier<Integer> s2 = t ->
> t++;System.out.println(s1.get(2));System.out.println(s2.get(2));
>
> The output is 2 and 3, NOT 2 and 2, as one would expect.
>
> More info, including discussion about bytecode is available at the SO link
> above.
>
> I'm also new to this list, so apologies if I've broken any mailing list
> etiquette.
>
> --
> Kind regards,
>
> Victor Antunes
>


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