Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!newsfeed.utanet.at!newsfeed01.chello.at!newscore.univie.ac.at!aconews-feed.univie.ac.at!aconews.univie.ac.at!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer From: Andreas Leitgeb Subject: Re: looping through a list, starting at 1 References: <4e3745a2$0$305$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <62239393-929c-4764-8c8e-9620a03a7b81@c29g2000yqd.googlegroups.com> <80346568-647c-4e27-8192-33e1765a09ce@glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com> <4b71d212-c055-4af0-b9a9-13e3afbc5785@glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com> <5b7d8805-7c33-4aa4-9b31-ae60c29a31f3@glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com> Reply-To: avl@logic.at User-Agent: slrn/pre0.9.9-111 (Linux) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: 12 Aug 2011 14:51:44 GMT Lines: 13 NNTP-Posting-Host: gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at X-Trace: 1313160704 tunews.univie.ac.at 71616 128.130.175.3 X-Complaints-To: abuse@tuwien.ac.at Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:7042 Andreas Leitgeb wrote: > The particular usecase that RandomAccess is used for is in my > humble opinion merely a syntactic trick almost same as defining > a boolean getter ... Why do things suddenly mean something entirely different when I read my own post later than what it meant to me when I wrote it? ;-) I meant to say: almost to the same effect as defining ... Defining a method surely isn't a "syntactical trick" (as it would have been implied by my misformulation).