The Daily WTF

We’ve talked about Java’s streams in the past. It’s hardly a “new” feature at this point, but its blend of “being really useful” and “based on functional programming techniques” and “different than other APIs” means that we still have developers struggling to figure out how to use it.

Jeff H has a co-worker, Clarence, who is very “anti-stream”. “It creates too many copies of our objects, so it’s terrible for memory, and it’s so much slower. Don’t use streams unless you absolutely have to!” So in many a code review, Jeff submits some very simple, easy to read, and fast-performing bit of stream code, and Clarence objects. “It’s slow. It wastes memory.”

Sometimes, another team member goes to bat for Jeff’s code. Sometimes they don’t. But then, in a recent review, Clarence submitted his own bit of stream code.

schedules.stream().forEach(schedule -> visitors.stream().forEach(scheduleVisitor -> { scheduleVisitor.visitSchedule(schedule); if (schedule.getDays() != null

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