Stream and Iterator (original) (raw)

Brian Goetz brian.goetz at oracle.com
Sat Dec 1 16:19:01 PST 2012

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

On 12/1/2012 7:02 PM, Remi Forax wrote:

Why Stream is not Iterable now that it has a method iterator() ?

Rémi

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