> That's exactly what Java thinks and thus it chose to keep the Streams lazy. Rumours of Stream's laziness have been greatly exaggerated. Stream<Integer> aS

> That's exactly what Java thinks and thus it chose to keep the Streams lazy. Rumours of Stream's laziness have been greatly exaggerated. Stream<Integer> aStream = Stream.iterate(1, i -> i + 1) .flatMap(i -> Stream.iterate(i, j -> j + 1) .flatMap(j -> Stream.iterate(j, k -> k + 1))); // Does not terminate Integer firstElement = aStream.findFirst().get();