On Fri, 12 May 2023 12:11:23 GMT, Maurizio Cimadamore <mcimadam...@openjdk.org> wrote:
> This patch adds a simpler method for composing symbol lookups. It is common > for clients to chain multiple symbol lookups together, e.g. to find a symbol > in multiple libraries. > > A new instance method, namely `SymbolLookup::or` is added, which first > searches a symbol in the first lookup, and, if that fails, proceeds to search > the symbol in the provided lookup. > > We have considered alternatives to express this, such as a static factory > `SymbolLookup::ofComposite` but settled on this because of the similarity > with `Optional::or`. This pull request has now been integrated. Changeset: 91aeb5de Author: Maurizio Cimadamore <mcimadam...@openjdk.org> URL: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/commit/91aeb5de580633dfc361957051cd00545aa883c7 Stats: 167 lines in 2 files changed: 167 ins; 0 del; 0 mod 8287834: Add SymbolLookup::or method Reviewed-by: psandoz ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/13954
