Bitten by the lambda parameter name

[maurizio cimadamore]

On 16-Jul-13 11:59 PM, Remi Forax wrote:
> On 07/17/2013 12:40 AM, maurizio cimadamore wrote:
>> On 16-Jul-13 11:17 PM, Dan Smith wrote:
>>> >   StringBuilder builder = createText(StringBuilder.class, builder 
>>> -> builder.append("name"));
>> What is this meant to replace exactly? It's a shorthand for:
>>
>> StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();
>> builder.append("name");
>>
>> ?
>>
>> Maurizio
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> Again, I'm not sure why this is interesting to know exactly what the 
> code does,
> Anyway, the code of createText allows you to create a mutable object 
> by reflection, to initialize it and when you get the result,
> you have the guarantee that you can never see the object half 
> initialized.
I'm asking about the code, because I think that if we are forcing people 
to write code like that there might be a problem other than the scope issue.
Having two variables so close with the same name is confusing - no 
matter how the language will pan out in the end. YOu seem to imply that 
using the same name is justified by the fact that the two objects are 
really the same - but I'm less sure that many people will be able to 
read your code and immediately grasp as to why the two variables are 
named in the same way. I think a good API should minimize occurrences of 
that for the users sake.

Maurizio
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> Rémi
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