Ways to iterate over a list in Java

Question

Being somewhat new to the Java language I\'m trying to familiarize myself with all the ways (or at least the non-pathological ones) that one might iterate through a list (or

Answer 1

I don't know what you consider pathological, but let me provide some alternatives you could have not seen before:

List sl= list ;
while( ! sl.empty() ) {
    E element= sl.get(0) ;
    .....
    sl= sl.subList(1,sl.size());
}

Or its recursive version:

void visit(List list) {
    if( list.isEmpty() ) return;
    E element= list.get(0) ;
    ....
    visit(list.subList(1,list.size()));
}

Also, a recursive version of the classical for(int i=0... :

void visit(List list,int pos) {
    if( pos >= list.size() ) return;
    E element= list.get(pos) ;
    ....
    visit(list,pos+1);
}

I mention them because you are "somewhat new to Java" and this could be interesting.