Review Request: CR#8001634 : Initial set of lambda functional interfaces (original) (raw)

Kevin Bourrillion kevinb at google.com
Thu Nov 1 08:46:13 PDT 2012

I like the name Provider best, but Guava couldn't use it because Guice hogged it, and now the JDK can't use it because javax.inject hogged it. :-)

On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 8:36 AM, Brian Goetz <brian.goetz at oracle.com> wrote:

Also I am starting to lean towards "Supplier" instead of "Factory", since factory connotes "make me a new one" and supplier merely connotes "find me one somehow." (This is consistent with Guava's choice.)

On 11/1/2012 7:58 AM, Doug Lea wrote:

http://cr.openjdk.java.net/**mduigou/8001634/2/webrev/<http://cr.openjdk.java.net/mduigou/8001634/2/webrev/>

My main non-technical reaction is that more I see "Mapper", the more I hate it. It interacts awfully especially with Maps. "Fun" (with lots of precedent in other languages) would be fine. Even "Function" would be fine. -Doug

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