Renaming Stream.subStream(int) to Stream.skip(int)
Brian Goetz
brian.goetz at oracle.com
Mon Oct 7 02:13:40 PDT 2013
>> Btw it used to be skip, and no one complained then they couldn't find
>> the method. Only after renaming to substream did the confusion start.
>
> I wonder how much of the HOL feedback came from people who had
> previously seen it this way?
>
I think zero. I think skip is whats used in all the other libraries of
this sort (e.g., RxJava).
> What were all the arguments for renaming to substream? Have they somehow
> been invalidated or are we just deciding that this HOL feedback puts
> more weight on the old position?
It was a random shift whose entire motivation was "Hmm, more like
String, let's try that." I think it was just a bad experiment.
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