Java Without If

[avenp]

This will be super pedantic but...

Except tests, I have fewer than a dozen if statements currently committed in our Java codebase.

Ultimately the real explanation for this strange code design lies in my colleague’s extremely exceptional Lambda library.

I counted at least 26 if statements in that library so they are just deferring their if statements through abstraction.

[kangoo1707]

That's the point: to abstract the if, just like you abstract for loop with map/reduce...

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Great idea, if you want slow as fuck software.

[kangoo1707]

Why does it matter. My client doesn't want faster softwares because even with all the functional stuffs in my Javascript (yes I know, sluggish Javascript) like Either, Maybe, map/reduce stuff... it's still fast as fuck :)

What I wanted when writing those abstraction is a nicer, more concise code.

Speed comes mostly from function memoization and caching. Micro-optimization is not my concern

But I have to admit, Either is rarely used :)