What does the arrow operator - do in Java

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While hunting through some code I came across the arrow operator  what exactly does it do  I thought Java did not have an arrow operator   return  Collection lt Car gt   CollectionUtils select listOfCars   arg0  - gt            return Car SEDAN      Car arg0  getStyle          Details  Java 6  Apache Commons Collection  IntelliJ 12   Update Answer  It turns out that IntelliJ 12 supports Java 8  which supports lambdas  and is  folding  Predicates and displaying them as lambdas  Below is the  un-folded  code   return  Collection lt Car gt   CollectionUtils select listOfCars  new Predicate         public boolean evaluate Object arg0            return Car SEDAN      Car arg0  getStyle

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It s a lambda expression   It means that  from the listOfCars  arg0 is one of the items of that list  With that item he is going to do  hence the -   whatever is inside of the brackets   In this example  he s going to return a list of cars that fit the condition  Car SEDAN      Car arg0  getStyle

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This one is useful as well when you want to implement a functional interface Runnable r     - gt  System out print  quot Run method quot     is equivalent to Runnable r   new Runnable              Override         public void run                 System out print  quot Run method quot

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I believe  this arrow exists because of your IDE  IntelliJ IDEA does such thing with some code  This is called code folding  You can click at the arrow to expand it

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That s part of the syntax of the new lambda expressions  to be introduced in Java 8  There are a couple of online tutorials to get the hang of it  here s a link to one  Basically  the - gt  separates the parameters  left-side  from the implementation  right side   The general syntax for using lambda expressions is  Parameters  - gt    Body   where the - gt  separates parameters and lambda expression body  The parameters are enclosed in parentheses which is the same way as for methods and the lambda expression body is a block of code enclosed in braces

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New Operator for lambda expression added in java 8  Lambda expression is the short way of method writing   It is indirectly used to implement functional interface  Primary Syntax    parameters  -    statements     There are some basic rules for effective lambda expressions writting which you should konw

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