Remove these methods from Option to enforce passing a callable for laziness

Question

Remove these methods from Option to enforce passing a callable for laziness

Closed this issue 9 years ago · 1 comments

public abstract Option<A> orElse(Option<A> other);
public abstract A getOrElse(A other);

Answer 1 · 2016-01-08T13:35:39.000Z

Okay I've looked into this more and this really seems to only be a surprise if you come from Scala.

I literally have hundreds of usages using primitives or empty values i.e 0, "", list() and I wouldn't want these to have the the visual noise of a lambda or the performance impact.

Let me know what you think