Let's please rename Block to Receiver before it's too late (original) (raw)

Doug Lea dl at cs.oswego.edu
Sat Jan 19 07:10:10 PST 2013

On 01/19/13 09:58, Tim Peierls wrote:

I agree that "sink" doesn't emphasize the side-effect aspect, but does it really need to? What other use could a sink have? Whereas "action" doesn't carry any sense of "consuming" or "accepting".

Right. That's why it is nice in streams, but not in cases where the connotation of consuming is just plain wrong -- the argument is just "used" not "consumed".

a.accept(x); b.accept(x); doSomethingElseWith(x);

My reason for preferring Action (or even Block!) to Sink is that the only commonality is potential (and extremely likely) side-effecting-ness.

(What would you name a void action of two arguments? There are a lot of these now.)

-Doug

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