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[Rémi Forax]

On 08/18/2012 06:48 PM, Zhong Yu wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Rémi Forax <forax at univ-mlv.fr> wrote:
>> On 08/17/2012 09:38 PM, Zhong Yu wrote:
>>> Another thing, remove() is a stateful operation, it depends on a prev
>>> next() call. If the caller invokes remove() without a prev next(), we
>>> should ideally throw IllegalStateException, regardless whether the
>>> operation is supported. I'm just saying; it's not a big deal either
>>> way.
>>>
>> No, it works the other way around, see the javadoc.
> I don't see that in javadoc.

In fact, it seems that there are both valid, if you consider that 
throwing an IllegalStateException doesn't alter the collection,
see the javadoc of Collection:

The "destructive" methods contained in this interface, that is, the 
methods that modify the collection on which they operate, are specified 
to throw UnsupportedOperationException if this collection does not 
support the operation. If this is the case, these methods may, but are 
not required to, throw an UnsupportedOperationException if the 
invocation would have no effect on the collection

Now, in practice, I've never seen any collection/iterator that checks 
the preconditions before throwing an UOE.

Rémi