Tony Morris

@ijuma But why oh why do they call it Optional and not Option? Just like they use -> for lambdas and not =>, as if they purposefully ...

@m_st Yeah. Guava named theirs Optional too.

@ijuma Hm, ok. I'm not familiar with Guava.. then it might not be that bad :-) but still, adjectives as class names feels weird to me

@m_st Also, one could claim that single arrow is better as it's less noisy and closer to mathematical notation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Function_(mathematics) …

@ijuma do you have any idea why Scala and C# went with => ?

@m_st Not sure. Scala uses -> for tuple pairs, but it seems like a much less important usage.

@ijuma @m_st the conflation of conjunction with a symbol typically used for implication is very unfortunate. #scala

@dibblego @ijuma @m_st At least, that's the only "justification" I can think of that makes any sort of sense.