Reader mail bag, libraries edition

[Brian Goetz]

As you may know, there is a separate -comments list which is intended to 
be used as a "suggestion box" (i.e., its not for discussion, and hence 
not subscribable or replyable.)  This is the public's primary means for 
providing input to the EG.  Most have already been discussed here.  The 
following comments should be considered "read into the record".  If 
folks want to discuss these, please start a separate thread.

Dec 10, 2012, Paul Benedict: 
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/lambda-libs-spec-comments/2012-December/000000.html
Summary: Collapse stream() and parallelStream() into stream(Hint)
Disposition: Reasonable idea, but too early to standardize the form of 
the API (symptom: everyone has a different suggestion for how this 
should look), will reconsider for 9

Jan 24, 2013, Michael Hixson: 
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/lambda-libs-spec-comments/2013-January/000001.html
Summary: More convenience methods for Comparator
Disposition: partially incorporated into API

Jan 31, 2013, Michael Hixson: 
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/lambda-libs-spec-comments/2013-January/000004.html
Summary: Narrow return type of Comparator.thenComparing
Disposition: Prototyped and rejected due to interactions with type inference

Mar 27, 2013, David Illsley: 
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/lambda-libs-spec-comments/2013-March/000005.html
Summary: Please add Predicates.notNull
Disposition: Not added; x -> x != null is no more verbose and no less 
abstract