I don't think it's necessarily pointless, since it provides the most logical possible integration with standard library classes, and that could be useful. With auto-boxing/unboxing, it makes these things iterable with foreach, etc.
But doing those sorts of things does defeat the purpose, probably, of using primitives only. So taking away those convenience methods seems OK. On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Benson Margulies <bimargul...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've noticed Something Odd about the Colt design. For the > PrimitiveArrayList classes, they are made to implement List over the > corresponding capitalized type. E.g. AbstractIntList extends > AbstractList<Integer>. > > I think that this is confusing and pointless. Instead of a nice clean > API that looks more or less just list ArrayList with 'int', it has the > mush of Integer and int. > > I propose to rip all of this out (and generate all the XxxArrayLists). > > Does this upset anyone in prospect? >
