Indexing access for Lists and Maps considered harmful?

[Neal Gafter]

On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Reinier Zwitserloot <
reinier at zwitserloot.com> wrote:

> Which part of "Trying to write a GENERIC FORM OF SUCH A METHOD" was
> confusing to you, neal? Perhaps 'generic'. I meant: That can add [] support
> to *any* java.util.List or java.util.Map.
>

That's precisely what I gave the code for.  I showed the implementation of
the GENERIC index-assignment methods for *all* List and Maps.  Would you
like to see the two one-line index-get methods too?