explode (original) (raw)

Tim Peierls tim at peierls.net
Thu Feb 7 10:59:22 PST 2013

On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 1:54 PM, Brian Goetz <brian.goetz at oracle.com> wrote:

flatMap is indeed map+flatten, but unfortunately we cannot factor it into two steps because of erasure. (We can't make a method on Stream<Collection> called flatten() that produces a Stream.)

I wasn't suggesting that the steps could be factored, only that a name that suggests the intuitive order of the steps stands a better chance of being understood and used by newbies.

--tim

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