BaseStream & Stream

[Brian Goetz]

BaseStream currently serves the type system more than it serves the 
user, which is a defect.  The user would never deal in a BaseStream; the 
only place it shows up is in type constraints like Foo<S extends 
BaseStream>.  Ideally we could get rid of it entirely.  Now that the 
design is stabilizing, this is a good time to explore that.

On 12/1/2012 7:02 PM, Remi Forax wrote:
> Brian,
> I think BaseStream (as supertype of Stream, IntStream, LongStream, etc)
> is not the best design.
> I see the fact that an IntStream should be view as a BaseStream as an
> interopt issue,
> I think it's better if IntStream has a method asStream that return a
> Stream,
> i.e. a real Stream not a strawman stream as BaseStream currently is.
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> This design is in my opinion better because from the user point of view,
> there is only one interface, Stream.
> Note that java.nio.Buffer has a similar design.
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> cheers,
> Rémi
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