Github user mbalassi commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/581#issuecomment-91082306
Thanks for picking up the issue, @ggevay. I would like to add to the list
Stephan mentioned:
I personally prefer the name collect for the method, it can still return a
iterator, but it is nice to keep the batch and streaming APIs in sync and we
already have a batch collect method. It is safer so people do not potentially
confuse it with the `IterativeDataStream`.
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