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On 8/8/2011 7:16 PM, Jan Burse wrote:
...
> I actually do use setSize for a kind of sparse Vector.
> Sparse in the sense that my Vector will have a couple
> of holes represented by null value elements. Which
> is eventually abuse of the term "sparse", but the use
> case is there.
...

If you only need small numbers of null elements, you could write a class
extending ArrayList that has setSize(). All you would do is loop adding
null elements or removing the tail elements until the ArrayList is the
required size.

Patricia