RFR : JDK-8001642 : Add Optional<T>, OptionalDouble, OptionalInt, OptionalLong

[Kevin Bourrillion]

I do NOT wish to restart this discussion; I just noticed a falsehood that
was never exposed:


On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 1:47 AM, Remi Forax <forax at univ-mlv.fr> wrote:

Google's Guava, which is a popular library, defines a class named Optional,
> but allow to store null unlike the current proposed implementation, this
> will generate a lot of confusions and frustrations.
>

Guava's Optional *cannot* be used to hold null. So this particular concern
is not a concern at all.


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