Devoxx - filter, partition and offset

[Richard Bair]

On Apr 3, 2013, at 8:29 AM, James Shaw <js102 at zepler.net> wrote:

> On 3 Apr 2013 16:10, "Brian Goetz" <brian.goetz at oracle.com> wrote:
>> 
>>>> Perhaps keep() and reject()? I'm sure there are other names, but
>>>> filter alone feels very unclear. (I can't remember which it is now).
>>> 
>>> Of the things in my email, its this single filter() method that most
>>> bothers me (and wasn't commented on).
>> 
>> A few people (but not many) have raised this issue before.  And, it's
>> been discussed by the EG.  The consensus was that this is maybe
>> something that maybe confuses some people for about the first 15
>> seconds, and thereafter they never think about it again.
> Fwiw, I'd expect filter to retain elements that satisfy a predicate. Any
> other method would feel like a double negative to me.

I think that's exactly why "filter" is a poor name choice. It seems to me that if a method called "filter" returns true, then the item should be filtered. And that is the opposite of what you're saying, isn't it? Hence, "filter" is not an intuitive name.

Richard