Suggestion: A wiki page for all answered "Why don't you ...?"

[Louis Wasserman]

Just seeing that it hasn't been mentioned, Guava's Idea Graveyard is an
example of this specific flavor of thing:
https://github.com/google/guava/wiki/IdeaGraveyard.  (It's pretty old,
though, which reflects some of the downsides.)

On Thu, Dec 12, 2024 at 10:34 AM Archie Cobbs <archie.cobbs at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 12, 2024 at 10:07 AM Brian Goetz <brian.goetz at oracle.com>
> wrote:
>
>> There is the amber-docs repo which gets published to `
>> openjdk.org/projects/amber` <http://openjdk.org/projects/amber>, which
>> is probably a better place to put it, and people can contribute via PRs.
>>
>
> I think putting something online under amber-docs is a great idea -
> especially the part where people can contribute using PR's, which fosters
> decentralized collaboration on the maintenance of the list.
>
> While it would be ideal to have a complete directory of ideas with
> accompanying summaries of all that has been discussed, we should probably
> start with something simpler and more maintainable.
>
> Here's a proposal: Have a list of "previously discussed ideas". Each idea
> has a one line description, a one paragraph summary, an optional example,
> and a bullet-point list of one or more links to the thread(s) in the
> archive that contain all the gory details of the discussion.
>
> Here's a simple example...
>
> *Idea:* Using switch statements for if/else control flow
>
> *Description:* Support "switches on nothing" where the cases simply
> provide the conditions on which to execute various code branches.
>
> *Example:*
>
>     public double toInches(String value) {
>         switch {
>         case when value.endsWith("mm") -> return 0.0393701 *
> Integer.parseInt(value.substring(0, value.length() - 2));
>         case when value.endsWith("ft") -> return 12 *
> Integer.parseInt(value.substring(0, value.length() - 2));
>         case when value.endsWith("light-years") -> return 3.725e+17 *
> Integer.parseInt(value.substring(0, value.length() - 2));
>         default -> throw new IllegalArgumentException("can't parse value");
>         }
>     }
>
> *Discussion:*
>
>    - https://mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/amber-dev/2024-October/008939.html
>
>
> Just now seeing Eirik's reference to Project Jigsaw's Issue Summary
> document. I like this even better but someone would have to step up and
> take ownership.
>
> -Archie
>
> --
> Archie L. Cobbs
>


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Louis Wasserman (he/they)
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