Is Can a little less like Option and more like scala.Either, where the left side is used to indicate failure?
On 21/12/2008, at 1:43 AM, David Pollak 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 framework http://liftweb.net > Collaborative Task Management http://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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
