On Sat, 25 Mar 2023 08:19:18 GMT, Rémi Forax <fo...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> Stuart Marks has updated the pull request incrementally with two additional >> commits since the last revision: >> >> - More specification tweaks. >> - Add simple overrides to ArrayList. > > This change is absolutely massive, implementing reversed() basically doubles > the number of implementations which means multiple years of debugging / spec > fixing. > > Reversing a List makes sense, reversing a LinkedHashSet/LinkedHashMap is a > nice to have. Having the concept of first and last (getFirst()/getLast()/etc) > on Collection is something long awaited. > > I understand that wanting to separate the concept of Collection and > SequencedCollection can be conceptually nice, but > multiplying the number of interfaces also multiplies the number of > implementations. Pragmatically, this patch is too big compared to how useful > it is. > > I get that Oracle is rich, but this JEP is not only a burden for Oracle but > for the whole community. @forax Funnily, I was thinking the other day that this change is quite small given that I've been working on it for over two years. :-) Anyway, thanks for looking through the implementation. ------------- PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/7387#issuecomment-1486016843
