FlatMapper

[Remi Forax]

On 02/12/2013 08:27 PM, Sam Pullara wrote:
> I don't get it. Why not just avoid importing Point2D.Double? This works fine:
>
> package spullara;
>
> import java.awt.geom.Point2D;
>
> public class Test {
>    public static void main(String[] args) {
>      Point2D.Double p = new Point2D.Double(10.0, 20.0);
>      double d = Double.parseDouble("123.45");
>    }
> }
>
> Sam

yes, just ...
but who read imports these days.

Rémi

>
> On Feb 12, 2013, at 11:17 AM, Remi Forax <forax at univ-mlv.fr> wrote:
>
>> On 02/12/2013 07:59 PM, Brian Goetz wrote:
>>>> Are we going to have a consistency issue with FlatMapper vs.
>>>> Function?  For instance we have ToIntFunction, but not
>>>> ToIntFlatMapper.  Instead we have FlatMapper.ToInt.
>>>
>>> I think that's a function of where it lands, which is open for discussion.  Currently it is in java.util.stream, where the dominant convention is Foo.OfBar.  If we moved it to java.util.function, we'd "flatten" the namespace.
>>>
>>> I currently lean towards JUS, since this does not seem as important a top-level type as Function, Predicate, or Supplier. But such decisions often turn around to bite one.
>>>
>> I've already said this, but nobody cares,
>> there is a usability issue with FlatMapper.ToInt, the very same that the one that was reported more than 10 years ago when java.awt.geom introduces classes like Point2D.Double [1][2].
>>
>> cheers,
>> Rémi
>> [1] http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4198349
>> [2] https://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=1665781
>>