Spliterator flags as enum (was Initial java.util.Spliterator putback)

[Tim Peierls]

On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 12:54 PM, Doug Lea <dl at cs.oswego.edu> wrote:

> OK, but I'm not sure what to say here?
>
> "You might have expected these to be defined in terms of enums and
> EnumSets,
> but they weren't because we must ensure value-based propagation with
> additional masking and unmasking across stream stages, and there is
> no existing type to support this and we decided no to create one."
>

It's a start. I particularly like the part up to the first comma. :-)



> Suggestions for something less inappropriate for inclusion
> in javadocs would be welcome. Unless we find some wording that rises
> above the particulars, this seems to me  more like a FAQ issue than
> something to put in javadocs though.


If the full text can't be put in javadocs, then at least there should be a
link in the javadocs to some FAQ page. "Wondering why this isn't expressed
using enums and
EnumSet?<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9254637/java-enum-vs-int>
"

--tim
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