Let's please rename Block to Receiver before it's too late

[Doug Lea]

On 01/19/13 09:58, Tim Peierls wrote:

> I agree that "sink" doesn't emphasize the side-effect aspect, but does it really
> need to? What other use could a sink have? Whereas "action" doesn't carry any
> sense of "consuming" or "accepting".

Right. That's why it is nice in streams, but not in cases
where the connotation of consuming is just plain wrong --
the argument is just "used" not "consumed".

   a.accept(x); b.accept(x); doSomethingElseWith(x);

My reason for preferring Action (or even Block!) to Sink
is that the only commonality is potential (and extremely
likely) side-effecting-ness.

(What would you name a void action of two arguments?
There are a lot of these now.)

-Doug