Optional iterators right now... Monads in terms of Java has been the topic that has caught my attention of late and while some of the articles out there have almost managed to penetrate my rather thick skull — I can almost see the potential benefits I can reap in terms of being able to design clean and easy to use apis — I still feel I am missing some crucial piece of information before the whole puzzle starts to make sense... Oh well — maybe it's best to simply let it settle and let these ideas mature a little in my head (I am sometimes slow, like this). Meanwhile I am getting kind of tired of all the boilerplate I have to write to get around potential NPE traps with this new and shiny for iteration syntax introduced in Java 5. Not that there is a lot to write, but it is kind of tedious and introduces something, that even has a nice buzzing name for it — "accidental complexity" into otherwise quite straightforward application logic.
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