Optional.or name Re: RFR 8080418 Add Optional.or() (original) (raw)

Tagir F. Valeev amaembo at gmail.com
Mon Oct 12 09:34:01 UTC 2015

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.Sandoz at 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 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.

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