Java 8 Stream, getting head and tail
- by lyomi
Java 8 introduced a Stream class that resembles Scala's Stream, a powerful lazy construct using which it is possible to do something like this very concisely:
def from(n: Int): Stream[Int] = n #:: from(n+1)
def sieve(s: Stream[Int]): Stream[Int] = {
s.head #:: sieve(s.tail filter (_ % s.head != 0))
}
val primes = sieve(from(2))
primes…
