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Re: looping through a list, starting at 1

From	Chris Riesbeck <Chris.Riesbeck@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject	Re: looping through a list, starting at 1
Date	2011-08-03 13:34 -0500
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On 8/2/2011 2:50 PM, markspace wrote:
> On 8/2/2011 12:38 PM, Chris Riesbeck wrote:
>
>> import static utils.Tail.tail;
>>
>> for (final E e : tail( list )) {
>> ...
>> }
>
>
> I like the static factory idea, but why define a whole new class?
>
> public class CollectionUtils {
>
> public static <T> List<T> skip( int n, List<T> list ) {
> return list.sublist( n, list.size() ) ;
> }
>
> public static <T> List<T> skip( List<T> list ) {
> return skip( 1, list ) ;
> }

Just generality ... Tail.tail() only requires something that's Iterable, 
not a List.

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Re: looping through a list, starting at 1 Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-08-01 21:50 -0400
  Re: looping through a list, starting at 1 Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-08-01 20:34 -0700
    Re: looping through a list, starting at 1 Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-08-01 20:35 -0700
  Re: looping through a list, starting at 1 Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-08-02 07:31 -0400
  Re: looping through a list, starting at 1 Chris Riesbeck <Chris.Riesbeck@gmail.com> - 2011-08-02 14:38 -0500
    Re: looping through a list, starting at 1 markspace <-@.> - 2011-08-02 12:50 -0700
      Re: looping through a list, starting at 1 Chris Riesbeck <Chris.Riesbeck@gmail.com> - 2011-08-03 13:34 -0500

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