Casting Spliterator and methods signature (original) (raw)

Boaz Nahum boaznahum at gmail.com
Mon Apr 15 07:32:06 PDT 2013


Spliterator *interface *is source-only of elements, So Intuitively and formally it can shown that it is safe casting Spliterator<? extends T> to Spliterator.

So, isn't better that methods that accept Spliterator will accept Spliterator<? extends T> :

public static Stream stream(Spliterator<? extends T> p1)

This makes user code much cleaner.

Thanks Boaz



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