Github user StephanEwen commented on the issue: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/2305 It seems we are go for the `with(...)` approach. Pending decision is whether we want `with` to be the long-run solution, or stay with `apply`. The reason why `DataStream` has `apply()` and `DataSet` has `with()` is that different people wrote the API functions and everyone has their favorite name and style that they stick to ;-) I agree that consistency should be key in the future. The `DataStream` API has more traction right now, and should long-term subsume the DataSet API, so I have a slight bias to keep the DataStream style for now (many people will not even use the `with(...)` variant because they don't set individual parallelism).
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