void vs Void

[Remi Forax]

On 11/16/2012 04:57 PM, Brian Goetz wrote:
> It is possible :)
>
> We had this on the list of things to clean up as part of this effort,
> but it looks like we're not going to have the time.

Zhong Yu, for your information, some members of the EG are also eager to 
have this,
at least the ones that often implement some Visitor<Void> :)
so this issue will not be fixed for Java 8 but will be fixed ASAP.

Rémi

>
> On 11/16/2012 10:37 AM, Zhong Yu wrote:
>> If a method returns Void, the method body must "return null;"
>> somewhere. That is ugly in a lambda expression. Is it possible that
>> the compiler adds the "return null" implicitly?
>>
>>       Void foo(){ System.out.println("foo"); }
>>
>> Zhong Yu
>>