Github user mateiz commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/252#issuecomment-39291407
The difference is that `textFile` can also operate on a single text file,
while `wholeTextFiles` really only makes sense on a set of files. That's why I
want it to be clear that it returns multiple files.
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