Questions about Stream/Iterable/Files - and possibly the compiler

[Paul Sandoz]

> On 5 Nov 2015, at 23:05, Remi Forax <forax at univ-mlv.fr> wrote:
>> 
>> At last, question B: Given all those premises, is there a specific reason
>> for which Files.write() hasn't been overloaded with a version capable of
>> accepting a Stream<String>?

No particular reason, just never got around to thinking about it. Seems like reasonable thing to do.

I logged an issue:

  https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8141608 <https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8141608>


>> It would have been the perfect complement of
>> Files.lines()
> 
> adding overloads with different interfaces is not a good idea, you can have a class that implements both interfaces (Stream and Iterable).
> 

Ordinarily i would agree with you, but in this case a class that implements Stream and Iterable is arguably a very confused class indeed (much like a class that implements Iterable and Iterator).

Paul.