Op fusing (was: Stream method survey responses)

[Brian Goetz]

Yes, we can (though do not yet) fuse sorted+uniq into a single operation.

On 1/24/2013 2:53 PM, Kevin Bourrillion wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 9:33 AM, Brian Goetz <brian.goetz at oracle.com
> <mailto:brian.goetz at oracle.com>> wrote:
>
>     sorted -- strong desire to add sorted() which uses natural order (or
>     throws).
>
>
> +1, I think.
>
> Could this perhaps yield other benefits?  For example, since users are
> strenuously urged to make compareTo() consistent with equals() -- or
> should be urged even more strenuously to do so -- can
> .uniqueElements().sorted() (in either order) do the smart thing?
>
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