On 18/09/2018 18:52, Jim Laskey wrote:
Please review the code for String::transform. The goal is to provide a String
instance method to allow function application of custom transformations applied
to an instance of String.
webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jlaskey/8203442/webrev/index.html
jbs: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8203442
csr: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8203703
I hate to bring up naming but if I have a Stream<String> or
Optional<String> then I'll use the "map" method to apply the mapping
function. Has this already been through the naming bike shed and it
settled on "transform"? Maybe a different name was chosen after looking
at code that would use it in stream operations? Maybe "transform" was
used as the argument to the function is always text? I'm not interested
in re-opening any discussions, just trying to see if options are
captured in a mail somewhere.
I'm also wondering if this is general enough to be defined by
CharSequence. Retrofitting CharSequence is always problematic and never
done lightly but I'm just wondering if it has been discussed and
dismissed. I don't think it could be done at a later time, at least not
without changing the input type parameter so that the mapping function
is Function<? super CharSequence, R> rather than Function<String, R>.
-Alan
