On Dec 7, 2017, at 4:33 PM, Stuart Marks <stuart.ma...@oracle.com> wrote:
> Please review this changeset that introduces a new no-arg method > orElseThrow() to Optional, as a preferred alternative to the get() method. Looks OK to me. > Corresponding methods are also added to OptionalDouble, Int, and Long. > > The orElseThrow() method is functionally identical to get(). It has some > affinity with the existing orElseThrow(exceptionSupplier) method, being > equivalent to orElseThrow(NoSuchElementException::new). > > The get() method is functionally unchanged. It is NOT being deprecated, > although some wording in the doc has been added to point to orElseThrow() as > the "preferred alternative." This is part of a (slow) migration away from > Optional.get(), which has an obvious, attractive name that is often misused. > These issues have been discussed on this list previously: > > http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2016-April/040484.html Quite a discussion. Good thing you opted not to name it “Optional.dudeCallIsPresentBeforeCallingMe().” Brian
