cumulate

Kevin Bourrillion kevinb at google.com
Fri Dec 21 12:55:22 PST 2012


+1 (of course)


On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Brian Goetz <brian.goetz at oracle.com>wrote:

> After an offline conversation with Doug, we're considering ditching
> cumulate from Streams.  Reasons include:
>
> 1.  Everybody looks at it and says WTF?  And then has a YAGNI fit about
> throwing the kitchen sink into this API.
>
> 2.  The form in which cumulation is exposed here -- stream in, stream out
> -- is really all that useful to algorithms that need it.  It would be
> better to expose as an operation on Arrays instead.
>
>


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