I have updated webrev again to fix some reported javadoc technical issues and
added null handling specification to the {Int|Double|Long}Supplier.
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mduigou/8004015/2/webrev/
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mduigou/8004015/2/specdiff/java/util/function/package-summary.html
I believe that this iteration is complete (or very nearly so).
Mike
On Dec 4 2012, at 21:47 , Mike Duigou wrote:
> Hello all;
>
> I have updated the proposed patch. The changes primarily add class and method
> documentation regarding handling of null for the primitive specializations.
>
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mduigou/8004015/1/webrev/
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mduigou/8004015/1/specdiff/java/util/function/package-summary.html
>
> I've also reformatted the source for the default methods.
>
> Mike
>
>
> On Nov 26 2012, at 18:12 , Mike Duigou wrote:
>
>> Hello all;
>>
>> In the original patch which added the basic lambda functional interfaces,
>> CR#8001634 [1], none of the interfaces extended other interfaces. The reason
>> was primarily that the javac compiler did not, at the time that 8001634 was
>> proposed, support extension methods. The compiler now supports adding of
>> method defaults so this patch improves the functional interfaces by filing
>> in the inheritance hierarchy.
>>
>> Adding the parent interfaces and default methods allows each functional
>> interface to be used in more places. It is especially important for the
>> functional interfaces which support primitive types, IntSupplier,
>> IntFunction, IntUnaryOperator, IntBinaryOperator, etc. We expect that
>> eventually standard implementations of these interfaces will be provided for
>> functions like max, min, sum, etc. By extending the reference oriented
>> functional interfaces such as Function, the primitive implementations can be
>> used with the boxed primitive types along with the primitive types for which
>> they are defined.
>>
>> The patch to add parent interfaces and default methods can be found here:
>>
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mduigou/8004015/0/webrev/
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mduigou/8004015/0/specdiff/java/util/function/package-summary.html
>>
>> Mike
>>
>> [1] http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/tl/jdk/rev/c2e80176a697
>
