Re: Has it been considered to add inverse methods to collections which are in Optional?

2020-12-17 Thread Stuart Marks
On 12/8/20 5:30 AM, Remi Forax wrote: De: "Dave Franken" Adding methods like notContains or notFilter have been considered several times in the past and rejected because it's too many methods with no real gain. I'm sure you can dig some old emails on lambda-dev and see the first iteration

Re: Has it been considered to add inverse methods to collections which are in Optional?

2020-12-08 Thread Remi Forax
- Mail original - > De: "Dave Franken" > À: "core-libs-dev" > Envoyé: Mardi 8 Décembre 2020 13:17:25 > Objet: Has it been considered to add inverse methods to collections which are > in Optional? > Dear all, Hi Dave, > > The class java.util.Optional could be considered a collection

Has it been considered to add inverse methods to collections which are in Optional?

2020-12-08 Thread Dave Franken
Dear all, The class java.util.Optional could be considered a collection with a limit on how many values it can hold, minimum 0, maximum 1. Likewise, any class implementing the regular java.util.Collection has a minimum, 0 and a maximum > 1. While Optional does not implement Collection, it could