Well, lambdas started getting added after everyone gave up asking too. :)

On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 2:47 PM, clay <[email protected]> wrote:

> Wow! Nice!
>
> I'm surprised it got added so quietly after such extensive debate, and
> months after everyone gave up asking. I'm definitely not complaining.
>
> Yes, a JDK8 standard equivalent to guava fromNullable or fj fromNull would
> be nice as well. I can live with what they have though.
>
>
> On Thursday, May 30, 2013 2:52:20 AM UTC-5, Morten A-Gott wrote:
>>
>> With a the other day, Java 8's Optional is starting to look more
>> useful. It finally got filter, map and flatMap:
>> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/**lambda/lambda/jdk/rev/**fde3666e6394<http://hg.openjdk.java.net/lambda/lambda/jdk/rev/fde3666e6394>
>>
>> Then, ifPresent was renamed to forEach:
>> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/**lambda/lambda/jdk/rev/**9d9753590439<http://hg.openjdk.java.net/lambda/lambda/jdk/rev/9d9753590439>
>>
>> Now, if we could get an factory method that will handle instansiation
>> with nulls, (like a fromNullable in guava, or the apply in Option in
>> Scala) creating Optionals would be a lot less verbose. No reason why
>> every developer should have to write a null check before creating an
>> Optional.
>>
>> And while they are at it, why not add 'exists' and 'forall' ?
>>
>>
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