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Re: looping through a list, starting at 1

Date	2011-08-05 10:39 -0700
From	Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org>
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Subject	Re: looping through a list, starting at 1
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On 8/5/2011 2:11 AM, Raymond Tong wrote:
> It depends on the implmentation of list.

It shouldn't.

> If the list implements RandomAccess interface, it is recommended to
> call get(i) instead of using iterator().

Why?

I'm dealing right now with some code that followed that advice, so that
changes will be needed throughout the code to change the choice of List
implementation. The only reason random access is needed is because of
code that could have used iterator(), but didn't.

Patricia

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Re: looping through a list, starting at 1 Raymond Tong <raytong82@gmail.com> - 2011-08-05 02:11 -0700
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