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Just a though. shouldn't the `SharingStarted.whileSubscribed*()` API be called `SharingStarted.whileCollected*()` instead? since `collect {}` is used on it, not `subscribe {}` ?

<https://kotlinlang.org/api/kotlinx.coroutines/kotlinx-coroutines-core/kotlinx.coroutines.flow/-sharing-started/>

The <https://kotlinlang.org/api/kotlinx.coroutines/kotlinx-coroutines-core/kotlinx.coroutines.flow/-shared-flow/|shared flow docs> start out by saying “An active collector of a shared flow is called a _subscriber_”, and then they use the word subscriber from that point on. I guess a collector could just be an instance of `FlowCollector` that isn’t doing anything, so they wanted to be explicit that it means a collector instance which is currently collecting :shrug:

I forgot to follow up. Thanks for the answer.

I still don't see the necessity of using a different terminology just to distinguish between an "active" Collector and a "non active" one. I believe it would have been less confusing to just call it `whileCollected`

By using a separate term, separate concepts and methods can be associated to the new term like `onSubscribe`