On Feb 12, 2015, at 7:27 PM, Louis Wasserman <[email protected]> wrote:
> I get that ifPresent is already available; I'm curious if you examined how
> often there is actually an "if absent" case in practice, relative to the
> "only do something if present" case.
>
> If you don't have statistics,
No, since this is still somewhat new. The evaluation was more based on the
principle when this is required it is currently rather awkward.
> I could fairly easily get statistics on Google's codebase for what usages of
> Guava's Optional look like, in terms of how often
>
> if (optional.isPresent()) {
> ...
> } else {
> ...
> }
>
> occurs, relative to
>
> if (optional.isPresent()) {
> ...
> }
> // no else
>
Please, that would be very helpful and interesting.
Thanks,
Paul.
