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

Brian Goetz brian.goetz at oracle.com
Sun Nov 4 06:16:06 PST 2012


How much do we care about the collision with javax.swing.Action? 

On Nov 4, 2012, at 9:06 AM, Doug Lea wrote:

> On 11/03/12 16:04, Brian Goetz wrote:
>> (Respond only if you *hate* block.)
>> 
> 
> As I first implied overly cutely, "block" is a heavily overloaded
> word. So, while it sounds OK in context, it will confuse people
> who aren't thinking about the context.
> 
> The other term with plenty of precedent in Java and elsewhere is
> "Action". And seems not to have any odd overloadings.
> I'd be OK with it.
> 
> -Doug
> 



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