One more pass on flatMap/mapMulti

[Brian Goetz]

DownstreamCollector?

On 1/10/2013 11:01 AM, Tim Peierls wrote:
> How about Acceptor?
>
> On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 10:54 AM, Brian Goetz <brian.goetz at oracle.com
> <mailto:brian.goetz at oracle.com>> wrote:
>
>     Downstream:
>
>          /** A collector for values associated with a given input.
>       Values can be
>           * yielded individually, or in aggregates such as collections,
>     arrays, or
>           * streams; aggregates are flattened, so that yielding an array
>     containing
>           * [1, 2] is equivalent to yield(1); yield(2).
>           */
>          interface Downstream<U> {
>              void yield(U element);
>
>              default void yield(Collection<U> collection) {
>                  for (U u : collection)
>                      yield(u);
>              }
>
>              default void yield(U[] array) {
>                  for (U u : array)
>                      yield(u);
>              }
>
>              default void yield(Stream<U> stream) {
>                  stream.forEach(this::yield);
>              }
>          }
>
>     The basic idea is that this is a collector for values.  It was at
>     one point called "collector" but now we have something else called
>     Collector.
>
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