Sorry Paul, I know the apiNote says "for examples see ..." but would you
mind providing an example. I'm scratching my head.
-Chris.
On 10/08/2013 12:42 PM, Paul Sandoz wrote:
Hi,
The following patch is a minor clarification to the documentation of
Spliterator.characteristics():
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/lambda/lambda/jdk/rev/653d17f35169
Paul.
--- a/src/share/classes/java/util/Spliterator.java Tue Oct 01 12:10:04
2013 +0200
+++ b/src/share/classes/java/util/Spliterator.java Tue Oct 08 13:36:27
2013 +0200
@@ -414,12 +414,18 @@ public interface Spliterator<T> {
* #ORDERED}, {@link #DISTINCT}, {@link #SORTED}, {@link #SIZED},
* {@link #NONNULL}, {@link #IMMUTABLE}, {@link #CONCURRENT},
* {@link #SUBSIZED}. Repeated calls to {@code characteristics()} on
- * a given spliterator should always return the same result.
+ * a given spliterator, prior to or in-between calls to {@code trySplit},
+ * should always return the same result.
*
* <p>If a Spliterator reports an inconsistent set of
* characteristics (either those returned from a single invocation
* or across multiple invocations), no guarantees can be made
* about any computation using this Spliterator.
+ *
+ * @apiNote The characteristics of a given spliterator before splitting
+ * may differ from the characteristics after splitting. For specific
+ * examples see the characteristic values {@link #SIZED}, {@link #SUBSIZED}
+ * and {@link #CONCURRENT}.
*
* @return a representation of characteristics
*/
