Collection.toArray(IntFunction)

[Paul Sandoz]

On Oct 1, 2013, at 7:57 AM, Peter Levart <peter.levart at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 05/30/2013 10:34 AM, Paul Sandoz wrote:
>>> >     default <T> T[] toArray(IntFunction<T[]> arrayFactory) {
>>> >         return toArray(arrayFactory.apply(size()));
>>> >     }
>>> >
>> This was previously discussed in the lambda EG. It was definitely recognised that the current Collection.toArray methods "stink" and we did not want to propagate the smell to Stream. We got to the point of sorting this out on Stream and suggested after that it may be worth propagating back to Collection but i think it got lost in the noise of other stuff. I will raise this with the EG.
>> 
>> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Is this still on the menu or we're out of luck?
> 

Most likely the latter. I am still for it, but we never got full consensus and it was small enough that we got distracted by other larger things.

Paul.