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From Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid>
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Subject Re: iteration blues
Date Fri, 04 Nov 2011 21:06:10 -0400
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On 11/4/2011 6:55 PM, Robert Klemme wrote:
> On 04.11.2011 18:46, Lew wrote:
>> Robert Klemme wrote:
>>> I'm surprised nobody seems to mention Iterator.remove().
>>
>> You must have missed:
>>>> If your algorithm is (pseudocoded):
>>>>
>>>> for each item in collection process item delete item from
>>>> collection
>>>>
>>>> you will need the iterator.
>>
>> All right, yeah, it *did* require that one be at least minimally
>> familiar with 'java.util.Iterator' to understand exactly why "you
>> will need the iterator", but every Java programmer from beginner
>> onward surely is aware of 'Iterator#remove()', right? Surely no one
>> calling themselves a Java programmer could be ignorant of such a
>> basic, fundamental, early concept in Java? Could they?
>
> Well... Judging from my experience Iterator.remove() seems to be less
> known than the other methods of that interface[...]

     True.  Java's designers ought to have known better than to
bloat an interface with *three* methods.  That's at least one too
many for today's programmers to grasp.  Maybe two too many, or
even more.

-- 
Eric Sosman
esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid

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iteration blues bob <bob@coolgroups.com> - 2011-11-03 08:37 -0700
  Re: iteration blues Knute Johnson <nospam@knutejohnson.com> - 2011-11-03 08:51 -0700
    Re: iteration blues Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-11-03 09:32 -0700
      Re: iteration blues Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-11-04 21:00 -0400
        Re: iteration blues spk <jhic@speak.invalid> - 2011-11-05 07:48 -0400
  Re: iteration blues Henk van Voorthuijsen <voorth@xs4all.nl> - 2011-11-03 09:31 -0700
    Re: iteration blues Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-11-03 13:50 -0700
      Re: iteration blues Henk van Voorthuijsen <voorth@xs4all.nl> - 2011-11-04 08:07 -0700
    Re: iteration blues Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-11-04 21:02 -0400
  Re: iteration blues Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-11-03 10:08 -0700
  Re: iteration blues Travers Naran <tnaran@gmail.com> - 2011-11-03 22:22 -0700
  Re: iteration blues Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2011-11-04 10:34 +0100
    Re: iteration blues Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-11-04 10:46 -0700
      Re: iteration blues Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2011-11-04 23:55 +0100
        Re: iteration blues Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-11-04 21:06 -0400
        Re: iteration blues Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-11-04 20:30 -0700
        Re: iteration blues bob <bob@coolgroups.com> - 2011-11-05 12:40 -0700
          Re: iteration blues Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-11-05 16:14 -0400
            Re: iteration blues Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-11-05 13:41 -0700
    Re: iteration blues bob <bob@coolgroups.com> - 2011-11-04 13:42 -0700

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