On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 12:09 PM, Simon Ochsenreither <
simon.ochsenreit...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Not sure whether it helps people learning the language or the new APIs
> when equivalent things are named differently throughout
> implementations/interfaces...


Scala's choice of renaming Maybe to Option doesn't seem to have been much
of a problem. If types have slightly different API's and purposes,
different names make sense (and I find the use of the adjective "Optional"
more sensible than the noun "Option", myself).

-- 
Cédric

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