Dot Product Thoughts

Stephen Colebourne scolebourne at joda.org
Fri Apr 19 03:39:54 PDT 2013


On 19 April 2013 01:42, Brian Goetz <brian.goetz at oracle.com> wrote:
>>>     Sensible would be the ability to express all built-in operators as
>>>     functions so they can be used as reducers.
>>
>> I'm a bit confused: are you describing a language change that would
>> allow any operator to be used as a function, or adding more static
>> overloads to primitive classes and Strings?
>
> Just more static methods in classes like Integer.

Maybe instead of:
Integer::opSum
Integer::opMultiply

It could be:
Opertators::sum
Opertators::multiply

Just a thought
Stephen


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