Is it too soon to remain *absolutely silent* about comprehensions, pattern matching, and pretty much any proposal that John Rose has ever come up with?
On 4 June 2013 22:32, Cédric Beust ♔ <[email protected]> wrote: > Okay everyone, nobody talk about Jigsaw, starting now. > > > > -- > Cédric > > > > On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 1:58 PM, Ricky Clarkson > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> 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' ? >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Java Posse" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>> >>> >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Java Posse" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Java Posse" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- Kevin Wright mail: [email protected] gtalk / msn : [email protected] quora: http://www.quora.com/Kevin-Wright google+: http://gplus.to/thecoda <[email protected]> twitter: @thecoda vibe / skype: kev.lee.wright steam: kev_lee_wright "My point today is that, if we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as "lines produced" but as "lines spent": the current conventional wisdom is so foolish as to book that count on the wrong side of the ledger" ~ Dijkstra -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Java Posse" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
