By using Java reflection, you can enhance the Visitor design pattern to provide a powerful way to operate on object structures, giving the flexibility to add new Visitable types as needed.

We have improved but we are not there yet. Let’s see if Java provides more tricks … Pattern matching in switch cases. In order to improve the readability a bit and reduce complexity we can use a ...

A bug in a Java 8 support release caused the ternary operator to behave incorrectly in certain corner-cases. The bug has been fixed, and should not be a problem today. More to the point, Java 8 is no ...