Loose end: spliterator() and stream() methods on Iterable

[Paul Sandoz]

On Jun 24, 2013, at 11:41 PM, Remi Forax <forax at univ-mlv.fr> wrote:

> On 06/24/2013 09:40 PM, Brian Goetz wrote:
>> After further thought, I think what this means is that we can move spliterator() up to Iterable, but not stream().  The reason for this is that some classes that implement Iterable<Integer> might prefer that their stream() method return an IntStream, not be forced into a Stream<Integer>.  So putting stream() too high up in the hierarchy forecloses on this.
> 
> I agree,

+1

Paul.


> Spliterator.OfInt is a Spliterator but IntStream is not a Stream.
> 
> Rémi