Predicates?
Dan Smith
daniel.smith at oracle.com
Thu Apr 18 12:10:14 PDT 2013
On Apr 18, 2013, at 12:56 PM, Mike Duigou <mike.duigou at oracle.com> wrote:
> On Apr 18 2013, at 11:38 , Michael Nascimento wrote:
>
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> Have you already considered a Predicates class / static methods in
>> Predicate with useful methods such as alwaysTrue(), alwaysFalse(),
>
> We had this in the past but honestly t -> false is just simpler.
>
>> isNull() etc?
>
> We added Objects.isNull and Objects.isNonNull to be used as method references rather than on Predicates.
This is the general strategy to take for things like this, and a luxury Guava didn't have. Example:
Predicate<String> isNull = Objects::isNull;
On performance: I'm sure Guava is optimized so that its methods always return a singleton. In principle, the semantics of lambdas and method references are abstract enough that you shouldn't have to worry about that. In practice, I wouldn't expect clever optimizations like that (e.g., turning every "x -> true" into the same object) in the near future.
—Dan
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