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Re: What's the best way to make a cross string set?

From Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject Re: What's the best way to make a cross string set?
Date 2017-07-27 18:27 -0400
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On 7/27/2017 4:22 PM, Eric Douglas wrote:
> On Thursday, July 27, 2017 at 3:50:08 PM UTC-4, Eric Sosman wrote:
>> recursive solution along the lines of:
>>
>> 	void tuples(List bigList, int which, String soFar) {
>> 	    if (which < bigList.size()) {
>> 	       for (Object item : bigList.get(which)) {
>> 	           tuples(bigList, which + 1, soFar + item);
>> 	       }
>> 	    } else {
>> 	        System.out.println(soFar);
>> 	    }
>> 	}
>> 	...
>> 	tuples(list1, 0, "");
>>
> 
> That doesn't make sense.  As is it doesn't compile, just says bigList.get(which) needs to return an Iterable.  I've tried modifying it but I'm not sure how it's supposed to work.

     Sorry about that.

	for (Object item : (Iterable) bigList.get(which)) {
	...

(If you'd used generics, this would never have happened.)

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What's the best way to make a cross string set? Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2017-07-27 12:12 -0700
  Re: What's the best way to make a cross string set? Knute Johnson <nospam@rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com> - 2017-07-27 14:38 -0500
    Re: What's the best way to make a cross string set? Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2017-07-27 12:49 -0700
  Re: What's the best way to make a cross string set? Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2017-07-27 15:49 -0400
    Re: What's the best way to make a cross string set? Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2017-07-27 12:55 -0700
    Re: What's the best way to make a cross string set? Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2017-07-27 13:22 -0700
      Re: What's the best way to make a cross string set? Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2017-07-27 13:30 -0700
      Re: What's the best way to make a cross string set? Knute Johnson <nospam@rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com> - 2017-07-27 15:34 -0500
      Re: What's the best way to make a cross string set? Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2017-07-27 18:27 -0400
        Re: What's the best way to make a cross string set? lewbloch@gmail.com - 2017-07-28 18:51 -0700
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  Re: What's the best way to make a cross string set? v_borchert@despammed.com (Volker Borchert) - 2017-07-28 18:19 +0000
    Re: What's the best way to make a cross string set? Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2017-07-28 13:28 -0700
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        Re: What's the best way to make a cross string set? Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2017-07-31 05:24 -0700
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                Re: What's the best way to make a cross string set? Andreas Leitgeb <avl@logic.at> - 2017-08-02 09:22 +0000
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                Re: What's the best way to make a cross string set? Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2017-08-03 12:20 -0400
                Re: What's the best way to make a cross string set? Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2017-08-03 10:15 -0700
                Re: What's the best way to make a cross string set? Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2017-08-03 13:42 -0400
                Re: What's the best way to make a cross string set? Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2017-08-03 11:17 -0700
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                Re: What's the best way to make a cross string set? Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2017-08-05 20:31 +0000
                Re: What's the best way to make a cross string set? Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2017-08-05 17:25 -0400
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