Collections.emptyList().sort() does nothing

[Andrej Golovnin]

> 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.

I don't think so. I would say that the implementation of
Collections.emptyList() is broken. Collections.emptyList() and
List.of() are not only empty lists. They are also immutable per
specification.

Here is another example of an unsortable empty list:

Collections.unmodifiableList(Collections.emptyList()).sort() throws an
exception.

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