How can we debug method calls that are not part of our own source code, say a call to JButton.setEnabled()? Java provides us with anonymous inner classes, which come in quite handy for this problem.

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Because it’s my bag, I’ve found that many Java developers aren’t aware of how to leverage anonymous classes. Indeed, they are an extremely handy feature, which can yield concise, but expressive code ...

Thanks to Java's anonymous (inner) classes, first-class functions (including environment capture) are indeed syntactic sugar that provide no additional expressive power. That's one way to look at it.

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