On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 1:12 PM, Matt Benson <gudnabr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi David, > [collections] has had generics in its trunk for years, but none of > its developers, myself included, have had time to get this rather > large codebase fully ready for a release. In any event, the general > idea in Commons is that [collections]' functor code is > semi-deprecated; That's a matter of opinion of course. For me, coding with functors in Java is not pretty and I'd rather wait for closures in Java 8. A generics version of collection is reasonable but, as Matt notes, it's a matter of wanting to put the time in. Gary > we will recommend instead the use of the [functor] > component AFTER we get *that* component ready for release. > > Sorry for the scylla/charybdis situation, > Matt > > On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 11:14 AM, David Cogen <co...@ll.mit.edu> wrote: > > Please correct me if I am mistaken about this: > > > > There appears to be no generics-aware version of Commons Collections > within > > Apache Commons. For example, there is no interface Predicate<T> in > version > > 3,2,1; only a Predicate. > > > > But I have for several years been using a generics-aware rewrite of > Commons > > Collections; see https://github.com/megamattron/collections-generic. I > have > > been very satisfied with it, and use it exclusively in preference to the > > Apache Commons version, but I expected that this would be adopted by > Apache > > Commons by now. But apparently it is not? > > > > Am I correct about this? If so, can anyone explain why it has not, or if > > there are plans to do so, or shed any other insight about this? > > > > Thanks so much. > > David Cogen > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > -- E-Mail: garydgreg...@gmail.com | ggreg...@apache.org JUnit in Action, 2nd Ed: <http://goog_1249600977>http://bit.ly/ECvg0 Spring Batch in Action: <http://s.apache.org/HOq>http://bit.ly/bqpbCK Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com Home: http://garygregory.com/ Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory
