Can is more like Option but richer. Not much like Either.
On 20 Dec, 20:33, Oliver Lambert <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.
>
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