Loose end: ints(), longs()

[Brian Goetz]

> I'm not really keen on the ints and longs methods though. I'm already
> used to intRange, which seems short enough, and is consistent with the
> other names, none of which are very short.

Actually intRange was already shortened to range() when it got moved 
from Streams to IntStream:

   IntStream r = IntStream.range(1, 10)

The name itself is plenty short; it is the arguments that seem verbose 
and unnecessarily specific:

   IntStream.rangeClosed(0, Integer.MAX_VALUE)

seems more "leaky" than

   IntStream.allTheInts()

But are you saying you're fine with the verbose form?  Or simply you'd 
rather have a name that sounds more like "range"?

>
> On May 28, 2013 9:27 AM, "Brian Goetz" <brian.goetz at oracle.com
> <mailto:brian.goetz at oracle.com>> wrote:
>
>     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.
>