RFR : JDK-8001642 : Add Optional, OptionalDouble, OptionalInt, OptionalLong (original) (raw)

Kevin Bourrillion kevinb at google.com
Thu Mar 28 18:23:45 UTC 2013


I do NOT wish to restart this discussion; I just noticed a falsehood that was never exposed:

On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 1:47 AM, Remi Forax <forax at univ-mlv.fr> wrote:

Google's Guava, which is a popular library, defines a class named Optional,

but allow to store null unlike the current proposed implementation, this will generate a lot of confusions and frustrations.

Guava's Optional cannot be used to hold null. So this particular concern is not a concern at all.

-- Kevin Bourrillion | Java Librarian | Google, Inc. | kevinb at google.com



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