Roedy Green wrote:
> On Tue, 13 May 2008 11:37:53 -0700, Mark Space
> <markspace@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone
> who said :
>
>> Consider substituting two methods for this one. "getAsList" and
>> "getAsSet" Then the caller can indicate which type is desired and
always
>> receive the correct type.
>
> If it is always possible to get as List, why would you ever return
> anything else? You can always use a List as a Set.
String[] words = { "The", "thing", "about", "Sets",
"is", "that", "each", "item", "is", "present",
"once", "and", "once", "only." };
List<String> list = new ArrayList<String>();
Set<String> set = new HashSet<String>();
for (String w : words) {
list.add(w);
set.add(w);
}
assert list.size() == words.length;
assert set.size() == words.length; // BZZZZT!
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