Github user mengxr commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/252#issuecomment-39290994
@mateiz `SparkContext#textFile` can read multiple files as well. Do you
think `wholeTextFile` is more consistent? If we move the method to
`SparkContext`, there will be no collision with other PRs. So we can merge this
one first.
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