Re: Ordered Sets
Mike Schilling wrote:
"kelvSYC" <kelvSYC@gmail.com> wrote in message
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What happens if you attempt to insert at index 2 but the element
you are
trying to insert is a duplicate of an existing element?
add() can return false to show that the list was not changed, right?
List.add() (unlike Set.add()) is declared void. Lists, unlike Sets,
have no reason to reject an add.
What you need to do is define the behavior of your class precisely,
and only then decide whether it's a List, a Set, or neither.
Note that even if it is neither a List nor a Set, it can share some of
their characteristics. For example, it does seem to be naturally
Iterable, which makes it easy to scan the elements in forwards order.
Its strangenesses are limited to the add method(s), so maybe it could
have a method that returns an unmodifiable List view. See
Collections.unmodifiableList to see how to do it.
Patricia
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