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

[Stuart Marks]

On 4/28/16 2:26 AM, Victor Polischuk wrote:
> I am sorry if my comment would be inappropriate, but is there a reason not to
> introduce "Optional<T> ifAbsent(Runnable emptyAction)" and change signature
> of ifPresent to "Optional<T> ifPresent(Consumer<? super T> consumer)"?
>
> In that case method chaining would be more natural and it will give a decent
> way to have more than one simple action assigned to Optional without creating
> messy java block.

Yes, this is starting to veer off topic from Optional.get().

I'll just say that a few methods have been added to Optional in Java 9: 
ifPresentOrElse(), or(), and stream(). It seems pretty complete now. Please see 
the Java 9 early access docs for details:

     http://download.java.net/java/jdk9/docs/api/java/util/Optional.html

s'marks