Hi, Functor was a nice idea back in 2011, but I think we promoted it to proper prematurely. In the light of Java 8 and it’s functional programming support, it is questionable whether a component like functor is really needed anymore. So the question is: how do we get on from here? I see several options:
- move functor back to sandbox and see whether is catches attention some time - move functor to dormant - nobody needs it anymore with Java 8 out of the door - redefine the component to target Java 8 and explicitly provide utilities for the classes in the java.util.function package My preference would be the last option. But I don’t see my self having a lot of time to work on this. But I’d be happy to see a group of dev forming who give this component a new direction. Regards, Benedikt --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
