On Fri, Dec 8, 2017 at 1:03 PM, Brian Burkhalter
<brian.burkhal...@oracle.com> wrote:
> On Dec 8, 2017, at 10:52 AM, David Lloyd <david.ll...@redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Dec 8, 2017 at 12:38 PM, Brian Burkhalter
>> <brian.burkhal...@oracle.com> wrote:
>>> Patrick’s comment made us think again about the naming here as 
>>> “nullStream()” would not fit for eventual equivalent methods on Reader and 
>>> Writer. It might be better to go with something like
>>>
>>> InputStream InputStream.nullSource();
>>> OutputStream.nullSink();
>>>
>>> and later
>>>
>>> Reader.nullSource();
>>> Writer.nullSink();
>>>
>>> Another alternative would be simply to reflect the class names in the 
>>> methods:
>>>
>>> InputStream InputStream.nullInputStream();
>>> OutputStream.nullOutputStream();
>>>
>>> and later
>>>
>>> Reader.nullReader();
>>> Writer.nullWriter();
>>
>> I for one prefer this alternative; it's very clear and unambiguous.
> The second one?

Yes, sorry.

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