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Is it a language- or platform-side feature? I mean, is this something that needs additional support from JVM side or could be done on existing JVMs (i.e. a comp

Is it a language- or platform-side feature? I mean, is this something that needs additional support from JVM side or could be done on existing JVMs (i.e. a compiler for Java 8 could be written that would produce code that'd run on older JDK without need for upgrade)?

ZitchDog 13y ago
It requires JDK 8 - but there is a project to backport the lambda syntax back to Java 7: https://github.com/orfjackal/retrolambda https://github.com/orfjackal/retrolambda