Function type naming conventions

[Joe Bowbeer]

IntFun

Int is already an abbreviation, so combining Int with another abbreviation
is consistent. Fun or Func; Op or Oper


On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 1:07 PM, Dan Smith <daniel.smith at oracle.com> wrote:

> On Jan 2, 2013, at 12:23 PM, Brian Goetz <brian.goetz at oracle.com> wrote:
>
> > Function<T,R>          T -> R
>
> The fact that this is not "Function<R,T>" makes me extremely happy. :-)
>
> On Jan 2, 2013, at 4:32 PM, Tim Peierls <tim at peierls.net> wrote:
>
> > I'm sure I'll never remember whether IntFunction is int -> int, T ->
> int, or int -> T, so it'll trip me up a little each time I read it.
>
> Stephen Colebourne makes a similar comment in the comments list.  His
> suggestion is to use a different base name for functions that return
> primitives -- we already have "Predicate" and "Block"; now we just need
> "IntThingy" and "DoubleThingy".  Stephen suggests "CalcInt", which I don't
> love, but maybe there's a word out there that nicely conveys the concept
> much like "Predicate"?
>
> —Dan