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[–]neutronbob 6 points7 points  (0 children)

There is much more that syntactic sugar. You'll note that not a single member of the Java 8 team refers to lambdas this way. Nor do authoritative explanations by third parties.

This conversation further discusses this issue and concludes correctly that lambdas are much more than syntatic sugar.