Comemnt¶

1. The methods BufferedRead.readLine and BufferedRead.lines are very helpful for reading text Files.

public String BufferedRead.readLine¶

Reads a line of text. A line is considered to be terminated by any one of a line feed ('\n'), a carriage return ('\r'), or a carriage return followed immediately by a linefeed.

public Stream\<String> BufferedRead.lines¶

Returns a Stream, the elements of which are lines read from this BufferedReader. The Stream is lazily populated, i.e., read only occurs during the terminal stream operation. The reader must not be operated on during the execution of the terminal stream operation. Otherwise, the result of the terminal stream operation is undefined.

1. Avoid using assert in Java production code as assertion is not turned on by default. Throw exception instead (since assert is just a syntax sugar of throwing exceptions).

The most important thing to remember about assertions is that they can be disabled, so never assume they'll be executed.

Therefore keep the followings things in mind when using assertions:

MutableList vs ArrayList¶

MutableList is ArrayList in Kotlin currently.

Create an Empty MutableList¶

Below is the most idiomatical way to create an empty mutable list in Kotlin.