Optional type

[Brian Goetz]

Don't know the answer to any of these yet!  But watch the repo as the story plays out.  

On Jul 27, 2012, at 1:15 AM, François Sarradin wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have seen in one of the changesets that an Optional type is supposed
> to be available in Java 8. I have some questions about:
> 
> * will the current implementation change later?
> * is it suppose to support a kind of flatMap operation?
> * will it be considered as an Iterable?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> François-
>