Arrays methods

bitter_fox bitterfoxc at gmail.com
Mon Mar 11 21:47:20 PDT 2013


How is "fillByIndex"?

I'm not a native speaker of English, so I don't know whether or not it's
preferred by native speakers.

Regards,
bitter_fox

2013/3/12 Brian Goetz <brian.goetz at oracle.com>

>   - add Arrays.fill() methods
>>
>
> We have an unfortunate collection.  We already have:
>
>      void fill(Object[] a, Object val) {
>
> If we added
>
>      <T> void fill(T[], IntFunction<T> gen)
>
> then existing calls to
>
>   fill(array, null)
>
> would become ambiguous.  Doh.  (But the other 17 forms are not
> problematic.)
>
> Any suggestions for alternate names?
>


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