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Raab, Donald Donald.Raab at gs.com
Wed Dec 26 08:09:43 PST 2012

Couldn't we push the Navigable methods up to Sorted using default methods?

Sure. In the unlikely event that Brian agrees about going this route :- ), the names are up for grabs. I listed them this way because we find that people don't like the name "Navigable" (because it does not immediately imply sortedness in people's minds) so the less often you are forced to use it the better. But that's a minor concern.

That's why we have a Bag, which is what toBag() would return for us. We're fine as long as it returns Collection, as a MutableBag is a Collection.

(Note that several method names don't exactly match up with return type names. There's no j.u. name for List & RandomAccess, or for a Collection that is not necessarily a List but unlike Set permits duplicates. (Further aside: If there were, then Map.values() should use it as well, but too late for that.))

-Doug

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