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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