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

[Doug Lea]

On 11/04/12 09:16, Brian Goetz wrote:
> How much do we care about the collision with javax.swing.Action?

How much do people care about java.util.List vs java.awt.List?
A non-rhetorical question; I don't know. But it would impact
the same people in the same way.

-Doug



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> On Nov 4, 2012, at 9:06 AM, Doug Lea wrote:
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>> On 11/03/12 16:04, Brian Goetz wrote:
>>> (Respond only if you *hate* block.)
>>>
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>> 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.
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>> 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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