One more pass on flatMap/mapMulti

[Brian Goetz]

I like the idea that whatever is passed to the block describes the 
downstream; the role of the block is to emit values downstream.  I think 
that makes things clearer about what's going on, which is good because 
what is going on is already not all that clear.

I buy that "Downstream" could use some nounification.  (Calvin say: 
verbing weirds language.)

DownstreamCollector
DownstreamAcceptor
DownstreamHandler

accept() is OK, and we can make it extend Block.

On 1/10/2013 12:28 PM, Tim Peierls wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 11:59 AM, Brian Goetz <brian.goetz at oracle.com
> <mailto:brian.goetz at oracle.com>> wrote:
>
>     Bikeshed discussions can continue.
>
>
> OK, then! :-)
>
> The method name "send" is OK, but you wouldn't be seeing it in the
> signature of explode. What you would see is Downstream<T>, which still
> bugs me. The word "downstream" is an adverb or adjective, not a noun.
> Things are sent downstream, they aren't sent *to* a downstream.
>
> Was Acceptor.accept proposed and rejected already? If so, why? I would
> understand
>
> explode(BiBlock<Acceptor<T>__, T>))
>
> --tim