hg: jdk8/tl/jdk: 8001642: Add Optional<T>, OptionalDouble, OptionalInt, OptionalLong
Brian Goetz
brian.goetz at oracle.com
Thu Mar 28 15:34:23 UTC 2013
> Has the optional classes been verified to serialize/deserialize correctly?
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They are not serializable.
> Finally, are these utilities critical to some other part JDK 8 that they were pushed out now as opposed to JDK 9?
>
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They are part of the libraries being added by JSR-335 / Project Lambda. There is extensive discussion on Optional on lambda-dev and the JSR 335 EG lists.
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