On Tuesday, 17 April 2018 at 07:40:23 UTC, Giles Bathgate wrote: > My personal reason for not liking it is because the same name > is used by Microsoft The java name for such a function is `computeIfAbsent` https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/util/Map.html#computeIfAbsent-K-java.util.function.Function-