Just been thinking... Java has `IntStream` and `Lo...

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[Klitos Kyriacou]

Just been thinking...
Java has IntStream and LongStream which avoids boxing compared to Stream<Integer> and Stream<Long>. Why doesn't Kotlin have IntSequence and LongSequence?
On the other hand, Kotlin has IntIterator which avoids boxing, while Java only has Iterator<Integer>.

[Ruckus]

More importantly, why wasn't it called Interator?

[ephemient]

so to an extent this would be easy:

interface IntSequence : Sequence<Int> {
    override fun iterator(): IntIterator
}

the problem is that without fun iterator(block suspend IntSequenceScope.() -> Unit): IntIterator + fun sequence(block suspend: IntSequenceScope.() -> Unit): IntSequence, you don't have useful ways to construct one, and all of the usual extension functions would result in boxing too