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

Raab, Donald Donald.Raab at gs.com
Tue Jan 22 13:59:39 PST 2013

The "collect" overlap and translation problem will happen with Groovy and Ruby developers as well.

One possible alternative name is "aggregate".

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/aggregate?s=t

verb forms: -"to bring together; collect into one sum, mass, or body." -"to combine and form a collection or mass."

It would probably make sense then to rename Collector -> Aggregator and then accumulate -> aggregate and finally Collectors -> Aggregators.

public interface Collector<T, R> { default boolean isConcurrent() { return false; }

R makeResult();

void accumulate(R result, T value);

R combine(R result, R other);

}

From: tpeierls at gmail.com [mailto:tpeierls at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Tim Peierls Sent: Friday, January 18, 2013 5:26 PM To: Raab, Donald [Tech] Cc: Doug Lea; lambda-libs-spec-experts at openjdk.java.net Subject: Re: Let's please rename Block to Receiver before it's too late

Please can we rename collect as well.  

Whoa, steady -- I like collect. I see the overlap issue, but that really can't be allowed to stand in the way of a good name. What were you proposing instead?

--tim

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