To Stream.slice(fromInclusive, toExclusive) or Stream.slice(toSkip, limit) that is the question

[Joe Bowbeer]

slice notation in groovy is also start..end, and slice notation in scala
and clojure is start:end.

Those are all the languages I know that have a slice. In what language is a
slice parameterized by start:count?
On Oct 11, 2013 1:12 AM, "Paul Sandoz" <paul.sandoz at oracle.com> wrote:

> Hi Joe,
>
> I tend to think of slice(s, l) as the fused (optimal) form of
> skip(s).limit(l). For parallel streams the the fused form will result in
> less wrapping and/or buffering (depending on the properties of the input
> stream). Documentation-wise we should probably include an api note on skip
> and limit referring to slice in this respect.
>
> Paul.
>
> On Oct 11, 2013, at 3:28 AM, Joe Bowbeer <joe.bowbeer at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > slice(start, end) would be more useful and more consistent with its use
> in
> > other languages (Python, Perl).
> >
> > In Python, the elements are start .. end-1 whereas the end is inclusive
> in
> > Perl.  But I think the use of start:end is fairly consistent for most
> > implementations of slice.
> >
> > I claim this would be more useful because otherwise there's no difference
> > between slice and skip(start) + limit(end-start)
> >
> > --Joe
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 5:04 PM, Brian Goetz <brian.goetz at oracle.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> FWIW, this is what the semantics were originally, and they got modified
> >> to be consistent with substring() when we renamed slice to substring()
> >> originally.  So this is a reversion to where we were before.
> >>
> >>
> >> On 10/10/2013 7:54 PM, Mike Duigou wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hello all;
> >>>
> >>> In the review of the renaming patch for Stream.substream() -> slice()
> >>> Brian asked me to consider also changing the semantics of the
> >>> parameters from the current Stream.slice(fromInclusive,**toExclusive).
> >>> The rationale is that we then have only one sense of usage in the
> >>> parameters for skip/limit/slice. This also makes slice() more
> >>> obviously equivalent to skip(toSkip).limit(limit). I am inclined to
> >>> agree with him that using the same semantics for the parameters
> >>> across the three methods has value.
> >>>
> >>> I will go forward with changing to Stream.slice(toSkip,limit) before
> >>> Monday assuming there is no outcry.
> >>>
> >>> Mike
> >>>
> >>>
>
>
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