When you consider the lambdas are really just sugar around chaining together some of the method primitives you don't _really_ have a second class citizen. I mea

When you consider the lambdas are really just sugar around chaining together some of the method primitives you don't _really_ have a second class citizen. I mean different languages give you different features so you _choose_ to work in java you might be limited to using just the primitives and not the full lambda syntax. However given your working in java and not scala you already made that decision ( BTW scala looks like it will support the lambda syntax really really well )