Hi Kevin,
I’m surprised you even noticed the methods.
I develop and maintain a collection library, in which I copied
checkPositionIndex because it is really commonly used by me.
I searched my library and found that checkPositionIndex has more than a
hundred use cases in my library.
And basicall
lass files...
From: core-libs-dev on behalf of Kevin
Bourrillion
Sent: Monday, January 13, 2025 2:19 PM
To: Glavo
Cc: core-libs-dev
Subject: Re: Request for Enhancement: Objects.checkPositionIndex(int, int)
Oh hey, I named those Guava methods. :-) This was my
Oh hey, I named those Guava methods. :-) This was my attempt to promote the
terms “position indexes vs. element indexes” and hope that the idea caught
on... which I’d say it still never has. I’m surprised you even noticed the
methods.
The notion is that “element indexes” are the buckets and “po
Currently the java.util.Objects provide the method `checkIndex(int, int)`
for checking indexes.
It is convenient, but cannot be used to implement methods such as
List::add(int, E) because these methods accept an index pointing to the end
of the collection.
So is it possible to add a new method to O
