It is "distributing" in the same sense as the distributive law:
c*(a+b) = c*a + c*b
(Think of the two collectors as the "sum" of a collector, and
"distributing" says that you can send the elements to the sum by sending
all of the elements to each.)
That said, I agree that the less mathematically-inclined might be drawn
to the plain-english meaning, which is more like an (imprecise) bisection.
On 6/19/2018 10:14 AM, Zheka Kozlov wrote:
I don't like `distributing` for the same reason as `bisecting`: for
me, it sounds like a Stream is giving each collector only a part of
elements.
2018-06-19 19:44 GMT+07:00 Brian Goetz <brian.go...@oracle.com
<mailto:brian.go...@oracle.com>>:
collectingToBoth
This one is actually both evocative of what the method does, and
in the spirit of the existing naming conventions (collectingAndThen.)
An n-ary version could just be called `collectingTo`, where it is
passed a varargs of Collector. Could we get away with
collectingTo for a binary version as well? The existence of the
"combiner" function might make that a stretch, but I prefer
`collectingTo` to `collectingToBoth`.
(I still like `distributing` too.)
