Review Request: CR#8001634 : Initial set of lambda functional interfaces

[Kevin Bourrillion]

... but I definitely feel Supplier is better than Factory.


On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 8:46 AM, Kevin Bourrillion <kevinb at google.com> wrote:

> I like the name Provider best, but Guava couldn't use it because Guice
> hogged it, and now the JDK can't use it because javax.inject hogged it. :-)
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> On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 8:36 AM, Brian Goetz <brian.goetz at oracle.com>wrote:
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>> Also I am starting to lean towards "Supplier<T>" instead of "Factory<T>",
>> since factory connotes "make me a new one" and supplier merely connotes
>> "find me one somehow."  (This is consistent with Guava's choice.)
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>> On 11/1/2012 7:58 AM, Doug Lea wrote:
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>>>  http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~**mduigou/8001634/2/webrev/<http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mduigou/8001634/2/webrev/>
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>>> My main non-technical reaction is that more I see "Mapper",
>>> the more I hate it. It interacts awfully especially with Maps.
>>> "Fun" (with lots of precedent in other languages) would
>>> be fine. Even "Function" would be fine.
>>>
>>> -Doug
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