Hi Rémi, >Thinking a little more, i do not understand why fold takes a Supplier as first >parameter and not just a value given that the Gatherer is created with >ofSequential().
If it didn't take a supplier then the resulting Gatherer could never be reused (including composition). I.e. The use of Supplier for the state type is not primarily/only about parallelizability, but rather reuse (which subsumes parallelizability). Cheers, √ Viktor Klang Software Architect, Java Platform Group Oracle ________________________________ From: Remi Forax <fo...@univ-mlv.fr> Sent: Friday, 20 December 2024 10:39 To: core-libs-dev <core-libs-...@openjdk.java.net> Cc: Viktor Klang <viktor.kl...@oracle.com> Subject: [External] : Gatherers.fold() Hello Victor, for the Advent of code of yesterday [1], i've this code golfing solution (the full code is here [2]) var input = ...; class Node { final HashMap<Integer, Node> map = new HashMap<>(); boolean end; } var root = new Node(); Arrays.stream(input.substring(0, input.indexOf('\n')).split(", ")) .forEach(w -> w.chars().boxed().gather(Gatherers.fold(() -> root, (n, c) -> n.map.computeIfAbsent(c, _ -> new Node()))).findFirst().orElseThrow().end = true); println(input.lines().skip(2).filter(w -> w.chars().boxed().<Set<Node>>gather(Gatherers.fold(() -> new HashSet<>(Set.of(root)), (ms, c) -> ms.stream().flatMap(m -> Stream.ofNullable(m.map.get(c))) .flatMap(n -> n != null && n.end ? Stream.of(n, root) : Stream.ofNullable(n)).collect(Collectors.toSet()))) .findFirst().orElseThrow().stream().anyMatch(n -> n.end)).count()); As you can see, the second call to Gatherers.fold() requires to specify the type argument, the <Set<Node>> in front because the supplier is not declared as a Supplier<? extends ...> Thinking a little more, i do not understand why fold takes a Supplier as first parameter and not just a value given that the Gatherer is created with ofSequential(). regards, Rémi [1] https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://adventofcode.com/2024/day/19__;!!ACWV5N9M2RV99hQ!J6APK3GQDbT-T1edAyWssnGHideZ-3rnwBQ39CsaHnc0y6OLh0fpSub1gPWjXsfzHl4OfAtxfQvA1k3dUfis$ [2] https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://github.com/forax/advent-of-code-2024__;!!ACWV5N9M2RV99hQ!J6APK3GQDbT-T1edAyWssnGHideZ-3rnwBQ39CsaHnc0y6OLh0fpSub1gPWjXsfzHl4OfAtxfQvA1n-w8kEG$