RFR [8014066] Mistake in documentation of ArrayList#removeRange

[David Holmes]

Ivan,

On 14/03/2014 9:19 PM, Ivan Gerasimov wrote:
> Thanks Peter for the comments.
>
> On 14.03.2014 14:53, Peter Levart wrote:
>> On 03/14/2014 08:05 AM, Ivan Gerasimov wrote:
>>> One thing I noticed is that some methods I mentioned above
>>> (List.subList(), Arrays.sort(), etc) throw IllegalArgumentException
>>> when fromIndex > toIndex, not IndexOutOfBoundException.
>>> Wouldn't it be more correct to adopt this into removeRange() too?
>>
>> The question is, what exception should be thrown for removeRange(0,
>> -1) then... The order of checks matters and should be specified if two
>> kinds of exceptions are thrown...
>>
>
> In my opinion, the order of the checks should match the order of the
> listed exceptions in the spec.

That's a nice proposal but unfortunately there has never been a rule 
that you have to document exceptions in the order you expect them to be 
checked; nor do you have to implement exception checks in the order they 
are documented. So it is too late to try and enforce this now.

David
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> If the order is:
> @throws IndexOutOfBoundException if either index is negative or either
> index is greater than size()
> @throws IllegalArgumentException if (fromIndex > toIndex)
>
> then removeRange(0, -1) should throw IndexOutOfBoundException.
>
> Sincerely yours,
> Ivan
>