API question/request: Array to Stream

[Samir Talwar]

I quite like the semantic difference between "build me a new stream" and
"make a stream from this array". As long as this is something remembered by
the team working on a code base (which is on you, not Oracle), I'm in
favour of keeping both.


On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 10:25 AM, Richard Warburton <
richard.warburton at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Oops, I hadn't noticed there were 2 factory methods at different places
> > doing exactly the same thing.
> > Won't this perpetually provoke the question "Which one should I use?"
> >
> > Since java.util.Arrays has such a complete set of Stream-creation
> methods,
> > maybe one could drop Stream.of(T...) in favour of Arrays.stream(T...)?
> >
>
> I did actually raise this issue before, albeit proposing dropping
> Arrays.stream in favour of Stream.of and the response indicated that this
> was unlikely to happen.  It isn't really a big issue either way to be fair.
>  I doubt the situation has changed since then especially given the reduced
> time budget available for implementing such changes.
>
> regards,
>
>   Dr. Richard Warburton
>
>   http://insightfullogic.com
>   @RichardWarburto <http://twitter.com/richardwarburto>
>
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