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

Remi Forax forax at univ-mlv.fr
Sat Nov 3 14:29:47 PDT 2012


On 11/03/2012 10:17 PM, Tim Peierls wrote:
> [forgot to reply all]
>
> On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Brian Goetz <brian.goetz at oracle.com 
> <mailto: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.

Technically, you should not have to remember the name because
when you write a lambda expression the name is not used by the function 
interface conversion.

>
> --tim

Rémi



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