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From: Jeffrey Carter <jeffrey.carter@boeing.com>
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Georg Bauhaus wrote:
> 
> Jeffrey Carter <jeffrey.carter@boeing.com> wrote:
> 
> : Why would you use a list for anything other than a list?
> 
> If a queue/deque/stack is separately provided, I wouldn't.
> (Java 1.2 has explicit advice to use List as base for the
> these ADTs).

Even if they're not, I would build any I needed , using a list as
implementation, rather than using a list directly. No matter how
disciplined I am, it's too tempting to future modifiers of the code to
leave all those general list operations available.

-- 
Jeffrey Carter