> On 7 Mar 2016, at 12:47, Peter Levart <peter.lev...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> What about a Spliterator based on List.subList() method? While the
> specification of List.subList() does not guarantee any specific behavior when
> underlying list is structurally modified, the implementations (at least
> implementations in JDK based on AbstractList) do have a fail-fast behavior
> and there's a chance other implementations too.
>
We currently have as the @implSpec:
* @implSpec
* The default implementation creates a
* <em><a href="Spliterator.html#binding">late-binding</a></em> spliterator
* from the list's {@code Iterator}. The spliterator inherits the
* <em>fail-fast</em> properties of the list's iterator.
Note the inheritance clause, which also covers the sublist case.
We would need to update with something like:
"If this list implements RandomAccess then…. and the spliterator is
late-binding, and fail-fast
on a best effort basis if it is detected that this list (or any backing list if
this list is a sub-list) has
been structurally modified when traversing due to an change in size as returned
by the size()
method."
Paul.
