Github user andrewpalumbo commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/1829#issuecomment-200413224
This method would be very useful to us, e.g., when assigning ordinal
indices to the elements of a `DataSet` from an external mapping. I would not
think that this is too specific a use case.
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