Method references are a shorthand way to write lambda expressions that call a single method. Rather than implementing a method in a functional interface, a method reference simply points to an ...

Java just started to support lambdas in its language, with this new feature, they brought into play some syntax sugar coating to make code more concise. I thought it look pretty neat and wanted to ...

Current workaround is usage of method pointer operator (.&) instead. But it's not the same actually: method pointer returns Closure which has to be casted to required functional interface, but method ...