Loose ends: Optional

[Brian Goetz]

> Is the criticism that Brian is fielding now a replay of prior criticism of Guava's Optional?

Yes.  And there was extensive discussion on lambda-dev earlier over the desire for bind/flatMap.  It quickly spiraled off into unconstructiveness but before it got there, this was a relatively good explanation:

  http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/lambda-dev/2012-September/006050.html