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

Tim Peierls tim at peierls.net
Sat Nov 3 14:17:05 PDT 2012


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On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Brian Goetz <brian.goetz at oracle.com> wrote:

> I think the opposite is better -- let them each have a unique name.
>  Otherwise, we can run into overload problems where we want one Sam to
> implement or extend another -- which I don't think is dumb.
>

It's not dumb, it's just that I have yet to encounter a need for it in
practice.

Having the same name is much easier on the brain. This stuff is asking a
lot of people already; here's one way to reduce the pain.

--tim


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