Arrays methods

[Paul Sandoz]

On Mar 12, 2013, at 5:47 AM, bitter_fox <bitterfoxc at gmail.com> wrote:

> How is "fillByIndex"?
> 

Seems OK to me, "fillUp" could be another choice.

Paul.

> 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?
>>