RFR - JDK-8203442 String::transform (Code Review)

[Alan Bateman]

On 18/09/2018 18:52, Jim Laskey wrote:
> Please review the code for String::transform. The goal is to provide a String instance method to allow function application of custom transformations applied to an instance of String.
>
> webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jlaskey/8203442/webrev/index.html
> jbs: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8203442
> csr: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8203703
I hate to bring up naming but if I have a Stream<String> or 
Optional<String> then I'll use the "map" method to apply the mapping 
function. Has this already been through the naming bike shed and it 
settled on "transform"? Maybe a different name was chosen after looking 
at code that would use it in stream operations? Maybe "transform" was 
used as the argument to the function is always text? I'm not interested 
in re-opening any discussions, just trying to see if options are 
captured in a mail somewhere.

I'm also wondering if this is general enough to be defined by 
CharSequence. Retrofitting CharSequence is always problematic and never 
done lightly but I'm just wondering if it has been discussed and 
dismissed. I don't think it could be done at a later time, at least not 
without changing the input type parameter so that the mapping function 
is Function<? super CharSequence, R> rather than Function<String, R>.

-Alan