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From: Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org>
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On 8/1/2011 3:45 PM, Stefan Ram wrote:
>    Assuming a list has a sufficient number of entries at run
>    time, what should be prefered to assign a reference to each
>    entry to ģeĢ, starting at index 1:
>
> for( final E e : l.sublist( 1, l.size() ))...
>
>    or
>
> for( int i = 1; i<  l.size(); ++i ){ final E e = l.get( 0 ); ... }
>
>    ?
>

This is the sort of situation in which I try writing a comment, even if
I don't leave it in the code. The form that makes the comment easier to
write is the one that better models programmer intent.

Patricia