Errata for OCP: Oracle Certified Professional Java SE 8 Programmer II Study Guide - page 192 (Sybex)

[Bas Duineveld]

Code snippet:

Stream<String> infinite = Stream.generate(() -> "chimp");
Predicate<String> pred = x -> Character.isLetter(x.charAt(0));
System.out.println(infinite.anyMatch(pred));

Text: "On the infinite list, one match is found, so the call [to anyMatch()] terminates. If we called noneMatch() or allMatch(), they would run until we killed the program."
This is incorrect. noneMatch() also terminates immediately, returning false. Apart from that, I would say the term "infinite list" is incorrect and should read "infinite stream".

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

Bas,
Agreed and logged. And welcome to CodeRanch!

[Tomas Castagnino]

Hi!

I think there is something a little bit confusing with that paragraph. Granted, it is true that this would terminate:

Stream<String> infinite = Stream.generate(() -> “cat”);
Predicate<String> pred = x -> Character.isLetter(x.charAt(0));
System.out.println(infinite.noneMatch(pred));

But this, I think, would not:

Stream<String> infinite = Stream.generate(() -> “2at”);
Predicate<String> pred = x -> Character.isLetter(x.charAt(0));
System.out.println(infinite.noneMatch(pred));

And although it is never said in the paragraph that the noneMath() method ALWAYS terminates, the correction may lead someone to (mistakenly) assume that it does (I almost did).

Regards,

Tomás

[Tomas Castagnino]

Yes, I realize that first paragraph states that those methods “may or may not terminate for infinite stream”. So there is no errata in there. Mine was just a friendly note on the perhaps confundent (?) feeling I get when reading that section + the corrected errata.