[10?] RFR: 8193128: Reduce number of implementation classes returned by List/Set/Map.of()

[Peter Levart]

Hi Claes,

Claes Redestad je 09. 12. 2017 ob 03:19 napisal:
> Hi John,
>
> On 2017-12-09 02:20, John Rose wrote:
>> On Dec 8, 2017, at 4:45 PM, John Rose <john.r.rose at oracle.com 
>> <mailto:john.r.rose at oracle.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Can anyone point out a reason why the value based
>>> lists of List.of() should serialize while the value based
>>> lists of List.of().subList() should not?  Or is there some
>>> reason we should not allow subList to produce value
>>> based lists?

One thing that might be implied from the specification that talks about 
"...a view of the portion of this list between the specified indexes..." 
is that the view keeps a reference to the original list. This is 
observable if combined with Reference object(s). But I don't know if 
this is an important behavioral detail that any code depends on.

Regards, Peter