For JDK 9, annotating terminal operations?

[Brian Goetz]

The documentation clearly says "This is a terminal operation" (with a 
link to the definition of terminal operation) for every terminal 
operation in java.util.stream.

Of course, some people don't read the doc.  But would an annotation help 
those people?  I don't think so.


On 10/8/2013 10:56 AM, Paul Benedict wrote:
> I think some people today are not knowing the difference between the
> terminal and non-terminal operations. Correct me if wrong, but I believe
> the terminal operations are collectively referred to as "reduce".
>
> In any event, if terminal methods had a @Terminal annotation, then
> developers and source-code analysis tools would know clearly when the true
> work kicks-in.
>
> Any thoughts?
>