Loose ends: Optional

[Tim Peierls]

Oh. Emily Litella.

On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 4:28 PM, Brian Goetz <brian.goetz at oracle.com> wrote:

> Sorry, Sam typo'ed and I missed it the first time.  He meant change
> "ifPresent(Consumer)" to "forEach(Consumer)".  Not isPresent.
>
> On May 28, 2013, at 4:26 PM, Tim Peierls wrote:
>
> On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 4:22 PM, Brian Goetz <brian.goetz at oracle.com>wrote:
>
>> > The implementation decides if something can be lazy, I'm ok with these
>> having the same methods. In fact, I suggest we change the name of isPresent
>> to forEach.
>>
>> I'm OK with this.  Its a little weird since there is at most one element
>> to each, but the connection to methods on other containers is nice.
>>
>
> Please, no!
>
> That would make Optional unusable for all the people who would actually
> benefit from it.
>
> There must be some serious disconnect. I thought this was all settled.
>
> --tim
>
>
>
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