Primitive streams and optional (original) (raw)

Paul Sandoz paul.sandoz at oracle.com
Thu Nov 22 07:57:02 PST 2012

On Nov 21, 2012, at 7:00 PM, Remi Forax <forax at univ-mlv.fr> wrote:

On 11/21/2012 03:27 PM, Brian Goetz wrote:

I prefer the use of Optional. I could live, begrudgingly, with OptionalInt, but i don't think there is a strong technical requirement for it. The argument against OptionalInt vs Optional is basically "OMG, N more classes." If we did Doug's "Numeric" trick, we could get away with one new OptionalNumeric class.

There is a big difference between OptionalInt to Optional, OptionalInt can be retrofitted to a value type at least with the current plan where Optional requires full generification to be seen as a value type.

Ah! well observed, Touché, Paul.

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