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

[Paul Sandoz]

On Oct 11, 2013, at 11:52 AM, Joe Bowbeer <joe.bowbeer at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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?
> 
Haskell:

  http://hackage.haskell.org/package/vector-0.10.9.1/docs/Data-Vector.html#v%3aslice

Although that is on a vector and AFAICT not some generic traversable thing.
 
But point taken; there are other languages that take the absolute approach.

Paul.

> 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.

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