Does Java 8 provide a good way to repeat a value or function?

Question

In many other languages, eg. Haskell, it is easy to repeat a value or function multiple times, eg. to get a list of 8 copies of the value 1:

take 8 (repeat 1         


        

Answer 1

For completeness, and also because I couldn't help myself :)

Generating a limited sequence of constants is fairly close to what you would see in Haskell, only with Java level verboseness.

IntStream.generate(() -> 1)
         .limit(8)
         .forEach(System.out::println);