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Anghel Leonard
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Anghel Leonard is a Chief Technology Strategist and independent consultant with 20+ years of experience in the Java ecosystem. In daily work, he is focused on architecting and developing Java distributed applications that empower robust architectures, clean code, and high-performance. Also passionate about coaching, mentoring and technical leadership. He is the author of several books, videos and dozens of articles related to Java technologies.
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206. Implementing a Function that takes five (or any other arbitrary number of) arguments

We know that Java already has java.util.function.Function and the specialization of it, java.util.function.BiFunction. The Function interface defines the method apply(T, t), while BiFunction has apply(T t, U u).

In this context, we can define a TriFunction, FourFunction, or (why not?) a FiveFunction functional interface, as follows (all of these are specializations of Function):

@FunctionalInterface
public interface FiveFunction <T1, T2, T3, T4, T5, R> {
    
  R apply(T1 t1, T2 t2, T3 t3, T4 t4, T5 t5);
}

As its name suggests, this functional interface takes five arguments.

Now, let’s use it! Let’s assume that we have the following model:

public class PL4 {
    
  private final double a;
  private final double b;
  private final double c;
  private final double d;
  private final double x;
  public PL4(double a, double b, 
             double c, double...
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Anghel Leonard is a Chief Technology Strategist and independent consultant with 20+ years of experience in the Java ecosystem. In daily work, he is focused on architecting and developing Java distributed applications that empower robust architectures, clean code, and high-performance. Also passionate about coaching, mentoring and technical leadership. He is the author of several books, videos and dozens of articles related to Java technologies.
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