Re: NegativeArraySizeException ... IndexOutOfBoundsException ...

From:
Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Sat, 2 Jan 2010 13:21:34 +0000
Message-ID:
<alpine.DEB.1.10.1001021315040.9462@urchin.earth.li>
On Sat, 2 Jan 2010, Tom Anderson wrote:

On Sat, 2 Jan 2010, Albretch Mueller wrote:

This discussion started with comp.lang.java.programmer:
"java.lang.Rational" I will publish the algorithm/results of my code within
a week. Some of use believe such a library should be included by Sun


The problem of a bigger-than-int list has certainly come up before, and
a general-purpose implementation would be useful. In fact, i'd be mildly
surprised if there wasn't already one in either the Apache or Google
collections libraries - have you checked those?


Hmm, it seems they don't. Nor does Javolution.

If anyone's interested in writing a long-indexed list, i've had a quick
cut at the groundwork (compiled, but neither tested nor documented!):

http://urchin.earth.li/~twic/Code/BigCollections/

All you'd need to do to implement a big list would be to subclass
AbstractBigList and fill in the blanks.

tom

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