> On 20 Jan 2015, at 18:59, Paul Sandoz <paul.san...@oracle.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~psandoz/jdk9/JDK-8050820-Optional-stream/webrev/ > > This is one of those cases where i think adding a new method to Optional > carries enough weight.
Agreed. The changes look good to me. -Chris. > It can be really awkward to use Optional with Stream.flatMap to map to a > stream of present values. > > It's not at all obvious that one can do > "op.map(Stream::of).orElse(Stream.empty()))" so often one sees some contorted > code of there in the wild. Hopefully adding Optional.stream (and to the > primitive variants) will help reduce such contortions. > > A CCC will be filed. > > Thanks, > Paul.
