Thank you all on comments. I have studied referenced sources and now I
will upgrade my initial comment in context of mentioned mutative
update. I find now that first question that need answer is what is the
definition of stream and how pipeline of operations relate to stream.
Method 'map' implies
On 16/08/17 13:26, Remi Forax wrote:
> the name comes from Lisp
> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map_(higher-order_function)
Actually, the Lisp usage comes from mathematics:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map_(mathematics)
Since the original conception of Lisp was lambda calculus realised as a
On August 15, 2017 6:51:00 PM GMT+02:00, Jonathan Bluett-Duncan
wrote:
>Hi Krunoslav,
>
>I think the reason the method was named `map` rather than `replaceWith`
>or
>an equivalent name, is because `map` is a well-known name for this
>sort of *higher-order
>function*. The name itself has been ar
Naming is a deeply subjective thing; whatever names we chose, invariably
someone (or many someones) would come along and say "why didn't you
choose X." Sometimes there's a good reason why the proposed X is
clearly worse; sometimes its just a subjective association. But of
course, we have to p
Hi Krunoslav,
I think the reason the method was named `map` rather than `replaceWith` or
an equivalent name, is because `map` is a well-known name for this
sort of *higher-order
function*. The name itself has been around in functional programming
languages like Haskell and Scala and programming mo
Hi. When using java.util.stream 'map' method my opinion is that
'replaceWith' as method name would better describe what method do.
'map' method is applied on input stream, returns output stream but
returned stream elements are return values from 'map' method Function
argument. We continue our work
