Stream and Iterator

[Remi Forax]

On 12/02/2012 01:19 AM, Brian Goetz wrote:
> Because the common understanding of "Iterable" is that you can 
> repeatedly ask for an Iterator.  Yes, I know that the spec doesn't say 
> that, but that's how it's understood.  Asking for an Iterator is not 
> the common way of accessing a stream's elements; it's an escape hatch. 

agree.

> Making it Iterable would only call attention to this and confuse people.

so iterator() and spliterator() should nt be part of the interface too 
but accessible through a method call,
something like stream.escapeHatch().iterator(), and the interface 
EscapeHatch can be Iterable.
Note that from the implementation POV espaceHatch() can just return this.

Rémi

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> On 12/1/2012 7:02 PM, Remi Forax wrote:
>> Why Stream is not Iterable now that it has a method iterator() ?
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