Nulls

Doug Lea dl at cs.oswego.edu
Mon Sep 24 16:21:43 PDT 2012


On 09/24/12 12:08, Brian Goetz wrote:
> I think we're trying to not encourage further abuse.  There's consensus that
> present Optional should NOT store null.  Similarly, the Joe/Tim/Brian cabal is
> trying to NOT burden the streams API/implementation with any special
> null-awareness, again for the sake of not coddling abuse.
>

I'm still a little bit in disbelief about the proposal.
The spec for findAny would look like:

  * @return ... an absent Optional if no element matches
  * the given predicate, or if the predicate reports true for
  * a null argument and the stream contains a null element,
  * possibly even if the predicate also holds for another
  * nonnull element

OK?

-Doug








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