I would like to flatten a Source[Source[T]] opportunistically, emitting 
elements of type T as they arrive from any of the inner Sources. This is 
conceptually similar to a merge vertex 
<http://doc.akka.io/api/akka-stream-and-http-experimental/1.0-M2/index.html#akka.stream.scaladsl.Merge>,
 
with the added ability to add new input Sources on the fly. I would like to 
use the flatten method as defined on Source[T] 
<http://doc.akka.io/api/akka-stream-and-http-experimental/1.0-M2/index.html#akka.stream.scaladsl.Source>
 
to do this, but currently the only FlattenStrategy available is Concat, 
which, to quote the comments in FlattenStrategy.scala 
<https://github.com/akka/akka/blob/release-2.3-dev/akka-stream/src/main/scala/akka/stream/FlattenStrategy.scala>
: 
 

> * Strategy that flattens a stream of streams by concatenating them. This 
> means taking an incoming stream
> * emitting its elements directly to the output until it completes and then 
> taking the next stream. This has the
> * consequence that *if one of the input stream is infinite, no other 
> streams after that will be consumed from*.


Since the class it extends, abstract class FlattenStrategy[-T, U], has no 
abstract methods, I assume there's no way to create custom flatten 
strategies. 

How would you recommend writing an opportunistic flatten step?

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