Concat <was> Re: Ranges

[Paul Sandoz]

On May 3, 2013, at 6:24 PM, Paul Sandoz <Paul.Sandoz at oracle.com> wrote:

> On May 3, 2013, at 6:11 PM, Tim Peierls <tim at peierls.net> wrote: 
>> FWIW it is edge cases like this [LongStream.range()] that can complicate the implementation at the expense of the most common cases.
>> 
>> Can't you have two implementations, one for ranges wider than Long.MAX_VALUE, one for the rest (the common case), and pick which one to use at runtime?
>> 
> 
> Yes. IMO i don't think it should stop us doing the right thing API wise. I am just complaining a little bit :-)
> 

FWIW it just occurred to me if we keep Streams.concat then that can be used to concatenate the two streams for ranges of known size.

Paul.