[concurrency-interest] Subject: Re: ConcurrentHashMapV8

[Martin Buchholz]

On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Jed Wesley-Smith <jwesleysmith at atlassian.com
> wrote:

> The functional/persistent Stream interface is a great alternative that
> doesn't rely on null being magic:
>
> Stream<T> {
>   T get(); // throws if empty aka head()
>   Stream<T> next(); // aka tail()
>   boolean isEmpty();
> }
>
> implementations can be strict or lazy, but each actual instance is
> referentially transparent.
>

I don't quite understand this - it seems to reintroduce the atomicity
problem of Iterator hasNext/next.  Iterators solve this (annoyingly for the
implementer) by creating a one-element buffer to hold the promised next
element, and this would have to do likewise?  Or else isEmpty is just a
hint?
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