easier work with collections: default Stream.toList?

[Paul Sandoz]

On Sep 30, 2013, at 1:41 PM, "Millies, Sebastian" <Sebastian.Millies at softwareag.com> wrote:

> I would count myself a medium experienced user (I've been practicing using the new constructs in Java 8
> from time to time for about half a year). I must say I'd value the purity of the stream interface much higher.

That would be my experience too both as an implementor and a user, but that admits to a bias on my part :-)

The IDEs are quite proficient at working out the static imports.

Paul.

> I think it's important to look beyond the current release to what may happen farther away in the future.
> Tying streams to that horrible old API seems like a really bad idea to me. And what with IDE support and
> static imports, I can't say there'd be much of a conciseness advantage that would pay for the pollution.
> 
> -- Sebastian