Re: Newbie Question - ArrayLists and methods
Joshua Cranmer wrote:
Row 0 is changing because the parameters are being passed by reference.
According to Sun and the language lawyers, the parameters are passed by value.
The values happen to be references.
You send in the list of items, and it simultaneously affects both the
to-be-returned value and the input (rows 1 and 0, respectively). To keep
it from changing, you want to create a copy of the row, which is what
the first line of my method does.
As did the code I posted to the first version of this question.
public class Matriculate
{
List< List <Integer> > table
= new ArrayList< ArrayList <Integer> > ();
public Matriculate()
{
// the table will now contain zero rows
assert table.size() == 0;
// here row is declared the one and only time
// and initialized for the first of more than one time
List <Integer> row = new ArrayList <Integer> ();
row.add( 1 );
row.add( 2 );
row.add( 3 );
row.add( 5 );
table.add( row );
// the table will now contain one row
assert table.size() == 1;
row = new ArrayList <Integer> ();
// notice - re-used, not re-declared
// the variable 'row' now points to a whole
// new ArrayList
row.add( 1 );
row.add( 2 );
row.add( 4 );
row.add( 8 );
row.add( 16 );
table.add( row );
// the table will now contain two rows
assert table.size() == 2;
}
// now the variable 'row' is out of scope
// the closing curly brace killed it
public List< List <Integer>> getTable()
{
return Collections.unmodifiableList( table );
}
}
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