Stream

A Stream is a monad that is lazy, in which it could have a infinite list of elements.

A stream is useful as it can be used to truncate repeated similar computations on a list of elements.

Stateful and Bounded Operations

Stateful operations are operations that need to keep track of states to operate. Bounded operations are operations that should only be called on finite streams.

sorted, distinct

stream methods

Factory

• iterate Takes in a seed, and a Supplier that repetitively runs on the seed to get the next element.
• generate Takes in a Supplier that generates the next element.

Truncation

• limit takes in an integer n and returns a stream of the first n elements.
• takeWhile takes in a predicate and returns a stream containing elements of a stream (might not actually return a finite stream if predicate is always false.)

Reduction

• reduce It applies a function repeatedly on the elements of the stream, reducing it to a singular value.

Element Matching

• noneMatch, allMatch, anyMatch