Hello! If my opinion matters, I'm perfectly fine with Optional.or name, no need to change.
With best regards, Tagir Valeev. >> On 25 Sep 2015, at 12:58, Paul Sandoz <paul.san...@oracle.com> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> Please review this change to add a method Optional.or that allows one to >> better compose optionals: >> >> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~psandoz/jdk9/JDK-8080418-optional-or/webrev/ >> >> I also took the opportunity to clear up the JavaDoc, it was a little >> inconsistent and i personally found it harder to read in source code. >> PS> Now that the overall documentation changes and functional PS> behaviour of Optional.or has been agreed i would like to see if we PS> can find a better name, suggestions welcome, so lets get our paint brushes out :-) PS> I suggest we avoid commenting on comments, otherwise this thread could get out of control. PS> “Optional.or” is the best name so far i have come up with. The PS> “orElse” prefix is reversed for terminal methods and i don’t want to overload that. PS> -- PS> Alternative suggestions: PS> - “Optional.otherwise” PS> A bit of a mouthful, but reasonably accurate PS> - “Optional.mapElse" PS> The name is not entirely accurate since it accepts a Suppler<T> PS> not a T, a more accurate name would be the following alternative. PS> - “Optional.flatMapElse" PS> This name is likely to confuse. PS> Paul.
