First, LinkedList by definition is not thread safe so there's no need
to care about concurrency.
Second this is what modCount is all about, preventing an iterator to
keep on working.
Guy

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Carsten Otto
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 03:31:13PM +0300, Guy Korland wrote:
> > It seems like linkedList.clear() can be easily fixed to O(1) instead of 
> > O(n).
>
> With your solution one would be possible to continue working (traversing)
> on an empty (read: emptied) list. I don't think this is desired.
>
> Best regards,
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