Loose end: ints(), longs()
Brian Goetz
brian.goetz at oracle.com
Tue May 28 09:26:38 PDT 2013
Another loose end is a method to generate "all" ints / longs (which are
sugar for ranges 0..MAX_VALUE.) These show up in pedagogical examples
all the time:
ints().filter(i -> isPrime(i)).limit(100)
The logical place for them is:
IntStream.ints()
LongStream.longs()
but some have raised concern that this might be confusing because we
have an instance method on IntStream called "longs()" which widens the
elements from int to long. While this isn't fatal, it might be confusing.
Perhaps it would be better to rename these conversion methods:
IntStream: longs(), doubles(), boxed()
LongStream: doubles(), boxed()
DoubleStream: boxed()
to asInts(), asLongs(), and asBoxed()?
In retrospect, these seem better names anyway. And they also eliminate
the conflict above.
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