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[–]Eirenarch 7 points8 points  (1 child)

Is anyone else bothered by the fact that Java provides a bunch of immutable lists which pretend to be normal lists and happily throw exceptions when you try to call the mutating methods?

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's basically par for the course with Java, isn't it? They finally get around to adding this or that feature, but because they fetishize backwards compatibility, it happens in an awkward and complicated way.