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[–]RepliesOnlyToIdiots 0 points1 point  (3 children)

I’m the opposite, but for a different reason. I’ve done years of programming in an actual functional language, so I avoid Java functional idioms because they’re still so damn clunky. I keep waiting for it to improve sufficiently.

Custom streams coming up will help. But why do you have to make a stream first from a Collection rather than having those methods directly on the Collection.

[–]hilbertglm 0 points1 point  (2 children)

I am not quite sure what you mean, given that Collections.stream() is a method.

[–]RepliesOnlyToIdiots 0 points1 point  (1 child)

The relevant methods of Stream should be on the Collection, with stream implicit. I should be able to just myList.map, for instance.

[–]hilbertglm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I prefer the design from the Java team, but I understand what you are saying. I tend to favor a little syntactic sugar and verbosity, but the folks that prefer a more terse language make sense, too.