RFR: 8347753: VetoableListDecorator doesn't accept its own sublists for bulk operations [v2]

[Michael Strauß]

On Mon, 27 Jan 2025 18:47:41 GMT, Andy Goryachev <angorya at openjdk.org> wrote:

> > Can you elaborate?
> > what does "save one extra pointer" mean?
> 
> What I mean is simply get rid of the extra pointer like `VetoableListIteratorDecorator.parent` and the related logic, and simply create a copy of List/Collection each time.

Okay, I see. We can't do that, because a sublist is specified to be a live view onto the source list. After all, `list.subList(0, 3).clear()` is valid code, and the result is that three elements are removed from the source list.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jfx/pull/1679#issuecomment-2616640977