Re: ArrayList

From:

Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org>

Newsgroups:

comp.lang.java.help

Date:

Sun, 02 Dec 2007 19:27:24 -0800

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<fivt33$1l8i$1@ihnp4.ucsd.edu>

Knute Johnson wrote:

Art Cummings wrote:

Stefan I appreciate your reply. I looked at the reference you gave
and still don't understand. I'm a first year student with java I
should add.

Normally when I pass functions I do it like this

callfuntions(somearraylist)

someother void(ArrayList holdlist)

This is what i'm currently familiar with. Does it work differently
with ArrayList?

Thanks
Art

class MyClass {
    void myMethodTakesAnArrayListAsArgument(ArrayList list) {
         // do something with list
    }

    void otherMethodCallsThatMethod() {
        ArrayList thisList = new ArrayList();
        myMethodTakesAnArrayListAsArgument(thisList);
    }
}

Note that if you do it this way, myMethodTakesAnArrayListAsArgument can
make changes in the list. That may or may not be a good thing. If you
want to prevent changes, call:

myMethodTakesAnArrayListAsArgument(Collections.unmodifiableList(thisList));

Patricia

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