On Feb 12, 2015, at 8:29 PM, Louis Wasserman <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm not sure I can share hard numbers, but the ratio of
>
> if (optional.isPresent()) {
> // non-returning statements here
> }
>
> to
>
> if (optional.isPresent()) { // or negated
> // non-returning statements here
> } else {
> // non-returning statements here
> }
>
> is ~5.5x in favor of the no-else case. Both patterns have large numbers of
> hits, though, so I'm satisfied that this is not an unreasonable thing to do.
Many thanks, that's good to know.
>
> I can possibly try to extract statistics on how many of these cases would be
> easily converted to method references and other things that might be easier
> to express with functional interfaces, but I'm not sure how necessary that
> actually is.
>
It might be interesting, but i would be more curious about the following case:
if (!optional.isPresent()) {
...
}
// no else
would it be possible to get some numbers on that?
Thanks,
Paul.
