< elizarov> any reason behind the name name Flow kotlinlang #feed

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Tuan Kiet

06/03/2019, 7:52 AM

@elizarov any reason behind the name name “Flow”?

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gildor

06/03/2019, 8:03 AM

Why not? %) It’s short and pretty self explaining

There is Flowable in RxJava, so maybe inspired by this

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Dominaezzz

06/03/2019, 8:37 AM

There's also Flow in java apis too.

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elizarov

06/03/2019, 8:39 AM

Current flows from emitter to collector.

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Also, flow is one of the synonyms to stream. There are not that many good ones to choose from.

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LeoColman

06/03/2019, 11:38 AM

this discussion should probably be on #general?

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