Point lambdaification of List/Set/Map

[Brian Goetz]

To put it in aviation lingo: the cabin door has been closed and we've pulled away from the jetbridge.  

On Sep 22, 2013, at 5:40 AM, Stephen Colebourne wrote:

> I coded the methods I was thinking of on the plane  to SFO:
> https://gist.github.com/jodastephen/6659515
> 
> If there is still interest for JDK8 perhaps a group could work on
> tidying this up at the codegarten.
> 
> Stephen
> 
> 
> 
> On 12 July 2013 00:49, Stephen Colebourne <scolebourne at joda.org> wrote:
>> On 12 July 2013 00:04, Mike Duigou <mike.duigou at oracle.com> wrote:
>>>>> Implementation would ideally be via new dedicated immutable classes,
>>>>> however space could be saved by simply reusing the existing classes.
>>> 
>>> I would prefer to use existing Collections implementations. Primarily because they have already been thoroughly used. Any reason to use new dedicated classes?
>> 
>> Google Guava is the model here. It has dedicated immutable classes
>> that are more efficient because they don't have the overhead of an
>> immutable wrapper.
>> 
>> If it has to be existing classes, then so be it, but the
>> implementation may suffer as a result.
>> 
>> I don't believe it can be changed later, as users may see the
>> implementation class as significant, perhaps via a serialization ID.
>> If it is considered acceptable to change the implementation class in a
>> later release, then I would be happy to accept reusing the existing
>> classes to get this into 8. Is it possible to get an opinion on a
>> later implementation class change?
>> 
>>>>> Is this something we could fit in? (Is resourcing the problem, or the idea?)
>>> 
>>> Patches are *always* welcome and are usually more grease to make things happen than just a squeaky wheel. :-) Without a patch I wouldn't be willing to commit that this RFE would make it into Java 8.
>> 
>> I may be able to find time to do this. Or I may not. Other list
>> readers might want to chime in here and volunteer.
>> 
>> I certainly think it would be a popular addition.
>> 
>> Stephen