Hi Bruno,
  No objections here about the Arity interfaces.  I see that your master
branch also contains changes to migrate Unary* to * and * to Nullary*.
Personally I am satisfied to align with lambda/guava if noone else objects.

Thanks,
Matt


On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 4:25 PM, Bruno P. Kinoshita <
brunodepau...@yahoo.com.br> wrote:

> Hi Matt, all,
>
> I'm messing with [functor] in my GitHub mirror [1]. You can find the
> commits in the master branch [2].
>
> The Arity->Unary/Binary/Nullary interfaces look good. If there are no
> objections I would like to commit this change to the trunk in SVN.
>
> There are other changes that I'll omit in this commit, but will start new
> threads here in the mailing list :o)
>
> Thank you in advance!
>
> [1] https://github.com/kinow/functor
> [2] https://github.com/kinow/functor/commits/master
>
> Bruno P. Kinoshita
> http://kinoshita.eti.br
> http://tupilabs.com
>
>
> >________________________________
> > From: Bruno P. Kinoshita <ki...@apache.org>
> >To: Commons Developers List <dev@commons.apache.org>; "
> gudnabr...@gmail.com" <gudnabr...@gmail.com>
> >Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 3:58 PM
> >Subject: Re: [functor] Change default arity of Function, Predicate and
> Procedure
> >
> >I think it makes sense and is clear what is does.
> >
> >I thought in using {arity}Operation, but in Java 8 there are interfaces
> like BinaryOperator, and BinaryOperator extends BiFunction, so it would be
> confusing to users having something like interface BinaryFunction extends
> BinaryOperation in [functor].
> >
> >Bruno P. Kinoshita
> >http://kinoshita.eti.br
> >http://tupilabs.com
> >
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >> From: Matt Benson <gudnabr...@gmail.com>
> >> To: Bruno P. Kinoshita <brunodepau...@yahoo.com.br>
> >> Cc: Commons Developers List <dev@commons.apache.org>
> >> Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 1:29 PM
> >> Subject: Re: [functor] Change default arity of Function, Predicate and
> Procedure
> >>
> >> What about:
> >>
> >> Arity (Marker)
> >> |_Nullary extends Arity
> >> |_Unary<A> extends Arity
> >> |_Binary<L, R> extends Arity
> >>
> >> ?
> >>
> >> Matt
> >>
> >>
> >> On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 6:09 PM, Bruno P. Kinoshita <
> >> brunodepau...@yahoo.com.br> wrote:
> >>
> >>>  In Haskell you define your functions and its arity.
> >>>
> >>>  // nullary function
> >>>  a :: () => () -> String
> >>>  a = "Hello World"
> >>>
> >>>  // unary function
> >>>  b :: (Integral c) => c -: String
> >>>  b x = "Hello Integral"
> >>>
> >>>  I think in Clojure and Scala you can define the arity of the function
> too.
> >>>
> >>>  For the users of [functor] I think it would be easier to migrate their
> >>>  code to Java 8, or use it with Java 8, if both [functor] and Java 8
> >>>  Function classes had similar behaviour. That would be interesting
> >>>  especially if the lambda project provided a backport jar.
> >>>
> >>>  [functor] and lambda project provide 1 and 2 arities by default, but
> >>>  lambda doesn't provide nullary interfaces (or at least I couldn't
> >> find them
> >>>  in java.util.functions).
> >>>
> >>>  Cheers
> >>>
> >>>  Bruno P. Kinoshita
> >>>  http://kinoshita.eti.br
> >>>  http://tupilabs.com
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>  ----- Original Message -----
> >>>  > From: Matt Benson <gudnabr...@gmail.com>
> >>>  > To: Commons Developers List <dev@commons.apache.org>; Bruno P.
> >>>  Kinoshita <brunodepau...@yahoo.com.br>
> >>>  > Cc:
> >>>  > Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 8:57 PM
> >>>  > Subject: Re: [functor] Change default arity of Function, Predicate
> and
> >>>  Procedure
> >>>  >
> >>>  > What about in pure functional languages e.g. Haskell?
> >>>  >
> >>>  > Matt
> >>>  >
> >>>  >
> >>>  > On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 4:55 PM, Bruno P. Kinoshita <
> >>>  > brunodepau...@yahoo.com.br> wrote:
> >>>  >
> >>>  >>  Hi all,
> >>>  >>
> >>>  >>  In Java 8 and Guava the default arity of a Function is 1, but in
> >>>  [functor]
> >>>  >>  it is 0, IOW, in Java 8 and Guava a Function is by default a
> >>>  UnaryFunction,
> >>>  >>  while in [functor] it is a NullaryFunction.
> >>>  >>
> >>>  >>  What do you guys think of changing the default arity of Function,
> >>>  >>  Procedure and Predicate in [functor] to 1, rather than 0?
> >>>  >>
> >>>  >>  Cheers
> >>>  >>
> >>>  >>  Bruno P. Kinoshita
> >>>  >>  http://kinoshita.eti.br
> >>>  >>  http://tupilabs.com
> >>>  >>
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