Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Joshua Cranmer Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: setSize ArrayList, when will it come? Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2011 10:36:55 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 21 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2011 15:37:03 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="B3q1fNdvNsCxx/IZ4idKGA"; logging-data="8882"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/uvL4JVigTb9ndhortTebNgbVdayZV7ZI=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110624 Thunderbird/5.0 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:4IlCiSYF4cH0e7P0gouMwhWV5zs= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:6915 On 8/9/2011 2:56 AM, Andreas Leitgeb wrote: > Joshua Cranmer wrote: >> Now you're going to argue that it's brainless that ... > > Sorry to be so direct, but this "prognose" appeared entirely > brainless to me. I know, that your arguments usually aren't. > I guess this is just the type of answer you give to people > that you "identified" as trolls. I meant it as a rhetorical device to show that the argument, applied strictly, leads to a rather untenable proposition. There are a fair number of observable differences between Vector and ArrayList, even if you exclude the part about synchronized methods. I would also like to point out that in the time you have spent arguing for this feature, you could have implemented a small class that had this feature already. -- Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. -- Donald E. Knuth