hg: lambda/lambda/jdk: initial small set of extension methods on Collection and List which provide functional-style variants of common operations.

[Rémi Forax]

On 08/18/2011 04:23 PM, Paul Benedict wrote:
> Hi Mike,
>
> I don't think the xxxHelper classes are a good name. The utility
> package is in itself a bunch of helper classes. And a name like
> ListHelper kind of begs the question what help is needed or why help
> is needed. Since these are all static methods, why not merge
> CollectionHelpers with Collections, and introduce a new static utility
> Lists?
>
> Paul

Hi Paul, the real name of these classes is garbage class.
But ListGarbage is not that cool :)

As Mike says, it's just the first cut, I really hope we will not
have any of these classes at all at the end.

Rémi

> On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 12:24 PM,<mike.duigou at oracle.com>  wrote:
>> Changeset: 27671980ed45
>> Author:    mduigou
>> Date:      2011-08-16 15:00 -0700
>> URL:       http://hg.openjdk.java.net/lambda/lambda/jdk/rev/27671980ed45
>>
>> initial small set of extension methods on Collection and List which provide functional-style variants of common operations.
>>
>> Potential source incompatibility on Collection.removeAll(null) and Collection.retainAll(null) as this is now ambiguous.
>>
>> ! make/java/java/FILES_java.gmk
>> ! src/share/classes/java/util/Collection.java
>> + src/share/classes/java/util/CollectionHelpers.java
>> ! src/share/classes/java/util/List.java
>> + src/share/classes/java/util/ListHelpers.java
>> + test/java/util/Collection/Extensions.java
>> ! test/java/util/Collection/MOAT.java
>> + test/java/util/List/Extensions.java
>>
>>
>>