Collectors update (original) (raw)

Kevin Bourrillion kevinb at google.com
Tue Feb 5 12:20:33 PST 2013

On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Remi Forax <forax at univ-mlv.fr> wrote:

  1. Rejigger Partition to return an array again, with an explicit

    lambda (which will likely be an array ctor ref) to make the array. Eliminated the silly Partition class.

    Please don't do that, it's pure evil. public static Collector<T, Collection[]> partitioningBy(Predicate predicate, IntFunction<Collection[]> arraySupplier) { I've refactored this to make the partition collectors return Map<Boolean,_ _X>. I think returning a boolean -> T (or Boolean -> T) is better because it's conceptually more lightweight than a Map. I expect to see more function instead of a Map returned as result of a method.

    I'd have to disagree; I expect function objects to be little things I pass * in*, but I think it's more intuitive to expect a proper data structure back out.

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