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From: Chris Riesbeck <Chris.Riesbeck@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject: Re: looping through a list, starting at 1
Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2011 13:34:42 -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.