Concat and zip

[Joe Bowbeer]

I do foresee wanting to use zip in Java8, I don't want to write it myself,
and I'm not worried about transportation problems (how much worse than
Python can it be?).


On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 1:43 PM, Brian Goetz <brian.goetz at oracle.com> wrote:

> Yes, a key aspect of this YAGNI suggestion is that this is one of the
> things people CAN do for themselves, possibly with an example.  And,
> because there are multiple ways to do zip (pad out shorter stream to size
> of longer stream, stop at end of shorter stream, throw if streams are not
> of equal length) people may well want to roll their own.
>
>
> On 5/1/2013 4:25 PM, Tim Peierls wrote:
>
>> On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 4:03 PM, Joe Bowbeer <joe.bowbeer at gmail.com
>> <mailto:joe.bowbeer at gmail.com>**> wrote:
>>
>>     In defense of zip: I think it is fairly important.  Ease of
>>     expression (and productivity) are still the most valuable benefits
>>     of new features, and zip is important for a class of problems.  zip
>>     exists in Python, Scala, and Groovy (as "transpose" method), to name
>>     a few.
>>
>>     I would keep zip without Int/Long/Double versions.  This also avoids
>>     all the varieties of mixed primitive/Object pairings in zipped
>> streams.
>>
>>
>> That sounds reasonable. I was going to say make the ref/ref version an
>> example in javadoc and then people can roll their own primitive/ref
>> versions, but maybe that's asking too much.
>>
>> --tim
>>
>
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