I’m sure there’s a good reason, but could someone please explain why the java.util.Set interface lacks get(int Index), or any similar get() method? It seems that sets are great for putting things into, but I can’t find an elegant way of retrieving a single item from it. If I know I want the first item, I can use set.iterator().next(), but
Tag: data-structures
What are real world examples of when Linked Lists should be used?
Another programmer was mentioning that they haven’t found a use case for using a linked list data structure in any professional software in his career. I couldn’t think of any good examples off the top of my head. He is mostly a C# and Java developer Can anyone give some examples where this was the correct data structure to solve
Equivalent of PHP’s print_r in Java?
last time I asked how to populate a data structure here. Now I would like to know if there’s something in Java, like the print_r I use in PHP, to represent what I have populated in the Maps and lists without having to do my own algorithm. Any ideas? Answer Calling toString on the collection should return a string containing