Higher-order functional programming and wildcards in java

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Higher-order functional programming and wildcards in java

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ACM Southeast Regional Conference archive
Proceedings of the 45th annual southeast regional conference table of contents

Winston-Salem, North Carolina

SESSION: Papers table of contents

Pages: 42 - 46

Year of Publication: 2007

ISBN:978-1-59593-629-5

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Nattawut Sridranop	Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Florida
Ryan Stansifer	Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Florida

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SIGAPP: ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

Despite the absence of first-class functions in Java, it is possible to program in the style of functional languages like ML or Haskell using the new capabilities in Java 1.5. We show how to use generic classes to program higher-order functions and how this interacts with object-oriented programming. We also show the necessity of the wildcard construct in Java and reveal several pitfalls. We conclude that the constructs in Java do not permit a functional framework that is completely compatible with object-oriented programming.

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