Function type naming conventions (original) (raw)

Paul Sandoz paul.sandoz at oracle.com
Thu Jan 24 01:33:18 PST 2013

On Jan 23, 2013, at 10:20 PM, Brian Goetz <brian.goetz at Oracle.COM> wrote:

Will do the first part tomorrow unless someone strongly objects.

Open issues: - Where multiple rules apply, do we prefer XY or XToY?

XToY, i find the "To" is a useful demarcation.

- Do we like the "drop the arity prefix in case all are specialized" rule tweak?

If it is retained there is a more direct connection to the equivalent boxed version:

ObjIntBiBlock -> BiBlock<T, Integer>

ObjIntToDoubleBiFunction -> BiFunction<U, Integer, Double>

I suppose the alternative is to view Bi as shorthand for ObjObj and ObjObjToObj.

Paul.