I don't understand why we need IterableOnce ? Was: Proposal: JDK-8148917 Enhanced-For Statement Should Allow Streams

[Ivan Gerasimov]

Hi Peter!


On 3/15/19 1:24 AM, Peter Levart wrote:
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> On 3/15/19 9:03 AM, forax at univ-mlv.fr wrote:
>>>       * @since 13
>>>       */
>>>      interface Once {}
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>>>
>>> What do you think of that?
>> It's not clear to me if an annotation, available at runtime, is not a 
>> better fit.
>> Anyway, i'm not sure not sure introducing such interface/annotation 
>> worth its maintenance cost, as you said the use case is pretty narrow.
>>
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> It is narrow, but in a situation like that, where you want to code an 
> optimal generic algorithm and all you have access to is an Iterable, 
> there's no other way (short of providing additional methods, which is 
> ugly). Just think of this situation. You have to decide upfront if you 
> need to buffer the elements obtained from 1st iteration or not, but 
> 1st iteration always succeeds...
>
Can you please explain how the interface Once would help to solve this?
If an Iterable does not implement Once, it does not mean it allows 
multiple passes, right?

With kind regards,
Ivan

> Annotations are not suitable for that as the check has to be quick and 
> they don't play well with inheritance etc...
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> Peter
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With kind regards,
Ivan Gerasimov