RFR(m): 8140281 deprecate Optional.get()

[Mario Torre]

2016-04-27 19:43 GMT+02:00 Maurizio Cimadamore <maurizio.cimadamore at oracle.com>:
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>
> On 27/04/16 09:31, Andrew Haley wrote:
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>> what they say makes
>> sense to me
>
> It makes sense to me to. Having an innocently-named get() method throwing an
> exception is not something you see everyday. And in this case it's doubly
> confusing because one could imagine also a different behavior (i.e. return
> null if no object is there). So I'm in favor for making things clearer by
> choosing a more explicit name (whether the proposed one or a better one).

This thread looks funny, so I chime in too.

+1 for the change overall, I really do like when methods are self
explanatory and I don't need to read the manual ;)

But please consider the getWhenPresent sounds to me like it's trying
to suggest that the method would block and returns *when* the value is
present, not sure if it's just me and the fact that I'm not native
english speaker though.

Cheers,
Mario

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