Upgrade Regex with a tester() method?

[Peter Levart]

On 01/04/2013 04:07 PM, Brian Goetz wrote:
> Seems a nice "point lambdafication" suggestion.  (The naming convention
> we've been using as "asPredicate()".)
>
>
> Regex is one of those areas where we wanted to do more with
> lambdafication, but just didn't have the time to work through it.  If
> you want to suggest more...
If that is being considered, I would suggest to include all 3 variants 
of matching (corresponding to 3 methods of Matcher):

public Predicate<String> asFindPredicate()
public Predicate<String> asLookingAtPredicate()
public Predicate<String> asMatchesPredicate()

Without "as" might even sound better since there are three of them:

public Predicate<String> findPredicate()
public Predicate<String> lookingAtPredicate()
public Predicate<String> matchesPredicate()


Regards, Peter

> On 1/3/2013 9:49 AM, Ben Evans wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've been thinking about places to include lambdas outside of the
>> collections libs.
>>
>> I've had a look through the archives but can't find any obvious
>> discussion of this topic, so am posting here. If there are threads
>> I've missed - please point me at them.
>>
>> What about upgrading java.util.regex.Pattern to include this method
>> (and / or similar):
>>
>> public Predicate<String> tester(){
>>       return s -> this.matcher(s).find();
>> }
>>
>> When writing articles and labs code which uses lambdas, I've found
>> myself writing helper classes to achieve a similar effect, and it
>> occurred to me that this could be a better way to solve the problem.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Ben
>>