Collections.emptyList().sort() does nothing

[Andrew Haley]

On 15/11/17 10:03, Andrej Golovnin wrote:
> I think we would need to write ugly code in any case as Java 9 has now
> two empty list implementations: Collections.emptyList() and List.of().
> 
> Collections.emptyList().sort() does not throw an exception.
> 
> List.of().sort() throws an exception.

Well, that's a bug.  Sorting an empty list is perfectly valid, and application
programmers shouldn't have to special-case it.

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Andrew Haley
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