Loose ends: Optional

Tim Peierls tim at peierls.net
Tue May 28 13:26:41 PDT 2013


On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 4:22 PM, Brian Goetz <brian.goetz at oracle.com> wrote:

> > The implementation decides if something can be lazy, I'm ok with these
> having the same methods. In fact, I suggest we change the name of isPresent
> to forEach.
>
> I'm OK with this.  Its a little weird since there is at most one element
> to each, but the connection to methods on other containers is nice.
>

Please, no!

That would make Optional unusable for all the people who would actually
benefit from it.

There must be some serious disconnect. I thought this was all settled.

--tim


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