RFR: 5015163 "(str) String merge/join that is the inverse of String.split()" into JDK 8

[Rémi Forax]

On 04/30/2012 11:03 AM, Paul Sandoz wrote:
> On Apr 28, 2012, at 1:01 AM, Rémi Forax wrote:
>
>> Hi Jim,
>> Yes, I've basically try to submit a patch each time I've written a method join
>> in one of my application :)
>>
>> The funny think (in fact it's even not funny) is that I think that this methods
>> should not be in String anymore. In Java 8, we will have defender methods
>> so you can write join directly on an Iterable. And there is some discussion
>> to also allow defender methods on arrays too,
>> so we may can write a method join on Object[] too
>> (on an interface inherited from Object[] to be precise).
>>
>> I really think that list.join(",") is better than "".join(",", list) and
>> ["foo", "bar"].join(",") is better than "".join(",", ["foo", "bar"]).
>> but maybe I'm wrong.
>>
> Good point. Although i don't see the harm with such methods on String that defer, or are required if say defender methods on arrays never come about.
>
> There are also more general cases of interpose and interleave (see Clojure's functions as an example) since join can be implemented using interpose which can be implemented using interleave.

Implementing interpose with interleave requires to remove the last element,
which is not so easy in lazy mode. It's easier to implement it directly.

> Not saying join should be implemented that way (not so optimal for Strings only) but i think such functions are very useful. I am not tracking the lambda library work very closely, have such functions been considered?

Yes, we discuss about zip/unzip, and what we call BiStream.
unzip is the other name of interleave.

>
> Paul.

Rémi