FYI, here is Brian's summary of the situation about Optional in Java 8.
Hopefully, this will provide some background on why things are the way they
are.
I have already seen that email but It doesn't clarify my doubts at all. I
wonder how it clarifies yours.
The problem is with the
On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 1:08 AM, Mario Fusco mario.fu...@gmail.com wrote:
I am not asking to turn Java into Scala. What I am asking is: either
provide an acceptable Optional implementation with the features that a
functional programmer expects to find in it or simply give up with it.
That's a
I think that list has had enough of emotional responses and it's been
made clear that we'll get what we're given in Java 8 regarding
Optional. It's not an open process, just an open mailing list.
On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 11:54 AM, Cédric Beust ♔ ced...@beust.com wrote:
On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at
