[Lift] Can or Box or something else

2008-12-20 Thread David Pollak
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: -

[Lift] Can or Box or something else

2008-12-20 Thread Oliver Lambert
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