I considered that as well but since the types are generics you'd have to cast anyway.
The only viable declaration is: private static Function<?,?> CASTING_IDENTITY = i -> i; On usage you'd have to add (Function<I,R>) CASTING_IDENTITY (Which assumes the compiler would even accept this heinous cast, I haven't tried it) Mike On Aug 23 2013, at 14:18 , Ali Ebrahimi wrote: > Why not to make castingIdentity method a constant? > > > On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 11:47 PM, Henry Jen <henry....@oracle.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Please kindly review the fix for eliminate some warnings in >> java.util.stream package. >> >> Chained Sink is an internal implementation detail, add the type for >> downstream is more precise but verbose. >> >> Included is also a couple other warnings cleanup. >> >> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~henryjen/tl/8023681.0/webrev/ >> >> Cheers, >> Henry >> >>
