Spliterator update
Gernot Neppert
mcnepp02 at googlemail.com
Thu Dec 27 03:42:06 PST 2012
Am 26.12.2012 23:55, schrieb Brian Goetz:
> After some offline discussions with Doug, we agreed that the
> getNaturalSplits method can be eliminated completely (rather than
> replaced with an isSplittable as suggested), and instead renaming
> split() as trySplit() which would be allowed to return null if the
> data source was not splittable. This eliminates the need to spec (and
> check) interactions between isSplittable and subsequent calls to
> split. This has been committed to lambda repo.
>
Please, could we have a more sensible name than 'Spliterator'? It's not
even an Iterator anymore, so why retain this ugly contrived word?
I suggest to use a simple, self-explanatory term such as 'SplitResult'.
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