Devoxx - filter, partition and offset (original) (raw)

James Shaw js102 at zepler.net
Wed Apr 3 08:29:41 PDT 2013

On 3 Apr 2013 16:10, "Brian Goetz" <brian.goetz at oracle.com> wrote:

>> Perhaps keep() and reject()? I'm sure there are other names, but >> filter alone feels very unclear. (I can't remember which it is now). > > Of the things in my email, its this single filter() method that most > bothers me (and wasn't commented on). A few people (but not many) have raised this issue before. And, it's been discussed by the EG. The consensus was that this is maybe something that maybe confuses some people for about the first 15 seconds, and thereafter they never think about it again. Fwiw, I'd expect filter to retain elements that satisfy a predicate. Any other method would feel like a double negative to me.

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