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Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2011 20:35:01 -0700
From: Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org>
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On 8/1/2011 8:34 PM, Patricia Shanahan wrote:
> On 8/1/2011 7:43 PM, Stefan Ram wrote:
>> Eric Sosman<esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> writes:
>>> ... and "natural" is a little unnatural, it seems to me. If
>>> the various E are truly independent -- if l is merely a Collection
>>> for the purposes of the loop -- one wonders where the interloper at
>>> position 0 came from.
>>
>> This is code for my new mark-up language. A section might
>> look like:
>>
>> < [This is an example heading]
>>
>> [This is the first paragraph of the body.]
>>
>> [This is the last paragraph of the body.]>
>>
>> . The first entry of a section always is interpreted as its
>> heading, so a heading does not require additional mark-up.
>>
>> The code to convert this section to HTML converts the first
>> entry »[This is an example heading]« into an HTML heading
>> element. Then it loops through the rest of the entries to
>> convert them to HTML paragraph elements.
>>
>
> Given that context, I prefer the sublist option, but suggest giving it
> an identifier. It may not even be necessary to have a comment explaining
> the skipped header:
>
> List<String> body = l.sublist( 1, l.size() );

I should have used "E" instead of "String" here.

>
> for( final E e : body ) ...
>
> Patricia
>