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

[Raab, Donald]

The "collect" overlap and translation problem will happen with Groovy and Ruby developers as well.  

One possible alternative name is "aggregate".  

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/aggregate?s=t

verb forms: 
-"to bring together; collect into one sum, mass, or body."
-"to combine and form a collection or mass."

It would probably make sense then to rename Collector -> Aggregator and then accumulate -> aggregate and finally Collectors -> Aggregators.

public interface Collector<T, R> {
    default boolean isConcurrent() { return false; }

    R makeResult();

    void accumulate(R result, T value);

    R combine(R result, R other);
}

From: tpeierls at gmail.com [mailto:tpeierls at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Tim Peierls
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2013 5:26 PM
To: Raab, Donald [Tech]
Cc: Doug Lea; lambda-libs-spec-experts at openjdk.java.net
Subject: Re: Let's please rename Block to Receiver before it's too late

Please can we rename collect as well.  

Whoa, steady -- I *like* collect. I see the overlap issue, but that really can't be allowed to stand in the way of a good name. What were you proposing instead?

--tim