What is slated for Guava 12?
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Emily Soldal
Feb 1, 2012, 3:11:23 AM2/1/12
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What is slated for Guava 12? I'm curious to know what changes we can
expect.
expect.
Mark Derricutt
Feb 6, 2012, 4:57:08 PM2/6/12
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Following on from my love of Optional I'd love to see some form of Either<T,E> added to guava.
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But then another part of just yells out "change languages" :(
Mark
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On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 9:11 PM, Emily Soldal <em...@soldal.org> wrote:
What is slated for Guava 12? I'm curious to know what changes we can
expect.
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Louis Wasserman
Feb 6, 2012, 5:06:26 PM2/6/12
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That's my instinct, as well. =(
As I understand it, Either is just dandy in Scala (and I think Scala comes with Either), but without the pattern-matching of a true functional language, it's a royal pain to do anything useful with.
I think the general rule here is, "If Either is what you really want, then roll your own with method names appropriate to your project." (Corollary, by the way: only use Optional if the "present/absent" dichotomy is really appropriate to your use case, otherwise, roll your own.)
Louis Wasserman
Feb 6, 2012, 5:39:09 PM2/6/12
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This search lists all the public Guava issues scheduled for Release 12. I'd say that the biggest new thing is "we're finally moving up to JDK 6!" which is a pretty major advance, and we'll finally start providing some NavigableXXX-based things; that's certainly been most of what I've been doing since 11 came out.
That said, if Kevin & co. have something bigger and awesome-r up their sleeves, I might not know about it...so I'm curious, too. =)
Kurt Alfred Kluever
Feb 6, 2012, 5:47:39 PM2/6/12
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Without going into too much detail, here's a rough list of things we are currently *considering*:
-Converter (w/ String + enum converters)
-CacheBuilderSpec
-Forwarding{NavMap,NavSets,SortedMultisets}
-Nav{Sets,Maps}
-Range{Map,Set}, TreeRangeSet
-Queues: newAD, newLBD
-Collections: orderedPerm, perm
-Escapers!
-MediaType
-JavaNetIdnIdnFactory
-CompositiveService
-FluentIterable
Again, this is a tentative list...no promises :-)
Louis Wasserman
Feb 6, 2012, 6:01:51 PM2/6/12
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Is this all under consideration for Guava 12? (I was under the vague impression that RangeSet/Map would wait until I was back at Google to finish them up, since I started them last summer...though I'm happy to continue working on them from the outside.)
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