Primitive streams and optional

[Remi Forax]

On 11/21/2012 03:27 PM, Brian Goetz wrote:
>> I prefer the use of Optional<Integer>. I could live, begrudgingly, with OptionalInt, but i don't think there is a strong technical requirement for it.
> The argument against OptionalInt vs Optional<Integer> is basically "OMG, N more classes."  If we did Doug's "Numeric" trick, we could get away with one new OptionalNumeric class.
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There is a big difference between OptionalInt to Optional<Integer>, 
OptionalInt can be retrofitted to a value type at least with the current 
plan where Optional<Integer> requires full generification to be seen as 
a value type.

Rémi