Between Can, Cup and Box ...Box makes most sense to me ... (I'm not going to suggest Bottle :) ...)
Br's, Marius On 20 Dec, 18:19, Tim Perrett <[email protected]> wrote: > Speaking from personal experience, what I didn't realize to begin with > was that the can was what we in England call a tin, and the > connotation of "you can do something" is conceptually very different > to "a can (tin) contains x" if you follow my meaning... > > I think the problem can be solved by better docs, and a paper that > explains the rational of can as a container - this would fix the curve > of understanding IMO. What usually happens when noobies ask about can, > is that people are pointed in the direction of Option, but if your new > to scala, that is fairly meaningless also as those comming from java > et al are using to checking for null so don't see why you need a > container. > > Just my two pence > > Cheers, Tim > > Sent from my iPhone > > On 20 Dec 2008, at 14:43, "David Pollak" > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Folks, > > > Over the year that Lift has had Can[T] as a replacement for Scala's > > Option[T], the name "Can" has required a lot of explaining. > > > As we make the final push into freezing Lift's APIs, do we want to > > change the name of Can to something else or should we leave it as > > Can. Alternatives are: > > Cup > > Box > > Both of which can be Full/Empty. > > > Thanks, > > > David > > > PS -- The Scala collections classes are getting a redo for 2.8. > > I've been gently pestering Martin to expand Option to have a Failure > > case. If this happens (it's not really likely for a couple of > > reasons), Can will be orphaned. > > > -- > > Lift, the simply functional web frameworkhttp://liftweb.net > > Collaborative Task Managementhttp://much4.us > > Follow me:http://twitter.com/dpp > > Git some:http://github.com/dpp --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
