Inspired by the hamcrest library and the hamcrest-collections library, logicalpractice-collections attempts to implement a more flexiable and powerful collection tools.

• Typed collect wrappers that hold and optionally enforce type safely of collections
• select, collect and remove functional methods

The following syntax is (using this library perfectly valid java.

smiths = select(people, where(Person.class).getLastName(),  equalToIgnoringCase("smith"));

// or using even more compact syntax

smiths = select(from(people).getLastName(),  equalToIgnoringCase("smith"));

// returns a list of firstNames, one item for each elemnet of 'people'
firstNames = collect(from(people).getFirstName());

There are some very important limits to the use of these functions and it'd be a good idea to have a quick read before you go wading on in there.