ReversibleCollection proposal

[Stuart Marks]

On 4/17/21 4:49 AM, Tagir Valeev wrote:
> Great proposal, thanks!
> 
> It has most functionality from my previous proposal, except the
> ability to iterate LinkedHashSet starting from a specific element.
> Well, probably we can skip this for now.

Thanks! And thanks for making that proposal a year ago; the ideas there and in the 
ensuing discussion clearly informed this proposal.

I did spend a bunch of time thinking about the "start from a specific element" case. 
Certainly it isn't difficult to create an iterator that starts from a specific 
element and proceeds in either direction. However, it's 2021, and nobody wants to 
program using Iterators anymore!! :-)

Perhaps an obvious extension is a LinkedHashSet subset-view from a particular 
element to the end (or beginning). This is kind of interesting, however, it leads 
off into the weeds. That is, the complexity in doing this seemed to outweigh the 
rest of the proposal, especially for the limited value it supplies, so I've left it 
aside for now.

It's possible to get a stream of LHS elements starting or ending at a particular 
element though a combination of reversed, takeWhile, and dropWhile.

s'marks