Re: foreach and stack, iterating from the bottom-up?

From:
Lew <lew@lewscanon.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Mon, 05 May 2008 22:51:04 -0400
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Arne VajhQj wrote:

I don't think the performance is a good reason in most cases.


Really, not even any reason.

But you have two classes that implement the same interface with
more or less the same semantics.


Except that Vector contains warts leftover from pre-Collections days.

It makes sense to use the same class instead of both.

The Vector class is a leftover from Java 1.0/1.1 and I have
no doubt that the intention from SUN is for people to use
ArrayList instead of Vector.

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I am also convinced that most people use ArrayList which also
points to using it.

And thirdly the synchronized part of Vector often misleads
developers to write thread unsafe code, because they think
the use of Vector handles it, when it very rarely does.


And fourth, Vector contains machinery outside the Collections framework, which
is superfluous to that in the framework. Why use a class that has methods and
interfaces (Enumeration, protected fields) that you don't need? It is just
more stuff to manage - better to use the leaner, meaner List and its proper
implementations.

--
Lew

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