Proposed rename of Map.forEach(BiBlock<? super K, ? super V> block)

[Doug Lea]

On 12/25/12 22:34, Raab, Donald wrote:

> Hopefully there are no plans to have Map re-defined as Map<K, V> extends Iterable<Entry<K, V>> in JDK 8.  Otherwise this would result in forEach() having to be redefined as forEach<Map.Entry<K, V>>.
>

The main snag is that there is no par/seq framework for Maps per se,
so there is no way to ask for seq vs par forEach(BiBlock).
Creating one is harder than for collections/streams,
so is triaged out for now. But people can get all the streams
stuff on any map.entrySet, at some expense in ugliness (and overhead),
which is better than putting something terrible into place now.
In the mean time, CHM exposes versions with names that cannot
possibly clash with any plausible seq/par Map framewwork.

Better ideas are welcome.

-Doug