Java Method References and higher order functions

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For anyone subscribed, here is another new feature we’ve added along the same lines that I’ve personally wanted for years!

New Feature: Static functional binding to BIFs

Functional programming and higher order functions (functions that receive or return other functions) have given us a lot of really ways to transform data on the fly with more concise syntax. If I have an array of string and I want them all uppercased, I can write this: [ "luis", "brad", "jon" ].map( name -> uCase( name ) ) Note, in the example above Omitting the parentheseis around our lambda argument name is supported by ACF, but not by Lucee. BoxLang, of course, allows this! We are also …