hg: lambda/lambda/jdk: Docs.

[Mike Duigou]

Using the iterator.remove() is the only safe way to incrementally remove items from a standard collection. 

iter.remove() is fine, coll.remove(e) has the problem you describe.

Mike

On Mar 22 2013, at 10:14 , Paul Benedict wrote:

> I have a question on Collection.removeAll().
> 
> The code is using iterator() to loop through the collection and remove()
> items. I thought it was best-practice (or almost a requirement) not to
> continue iterating through a collection once you remove() any item because
> collections are designed to fail-fast?
> 
> Paul
> 
> On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 11:59 AM, <paul.sandoz at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
>> Changeset: 966eb5cf1944
>> Author:    psandoz
>> Date:      2013-03-22 17:54 +0100
>> URL:       http://hg.openjdk.java.net/lambda/lambda/jdk/rev/966eb5cf1944
>> 
>> Docs.
>> 
>> ! src/share/classes/java/util/Collection.java
>> ! src/share/classes/java/util/List.java
>> ! src/share/classes/java/util/Set.java
>> ! src/share/classes/java/util/SortedSet.java
>> 
>> 
>> 
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