BiCollector

[Brian Goetz]

It is "distributing" in the same sense as the distributive law:

     c*(a+b) = c*a + c*b

(Think of the two collectors as the "sum" of a collector, and 
"distributing" says that you can send the elements to the sum by sending 
all of the elements to each.)

That said, I agree that the less mathematically-inclined might be drawn 
to the plain-english meaning, which is more like an (imprecise) bisection.

On 6/19/2018 10:14 AM, Zheka Kozlov wrote:
> I don't like `distributing` for the same reason as `bisecting`: for 
> me, it sounds like a Stream is giving each collector only a part of 
> elements.
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> 2018-06-19 19:44 GMT+07:00 Brian Goetz <brian.goetz at oracle.com 
> <mailto:brian.goetz at oracle.com>>:
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>         collectingToBoth
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>     This one is actually both evocative of what the method does, and
>     in the spirit of the existing naming conventions (collectingAndThen.)
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>     An n-ary version could just be called `collectingTo`, where it is
>     passed a varargs of Collector.  Could we get away with
>     collectingTo for a binary version as well?  The existence of the
>     "combiner" function might make that a stretch, but I prefer
>     `collectingTo` to `collectingToBoth`.
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>     (I still like `distributing` too.)
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