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From: "Marshall  Spight" <marshall.spight@gmail.com>
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mAsterdam wrote:
>
> Aside (the example surely illustrates your point)
> could this removeAt operation possibly be useful
> in a concurrent environment?

For sure.

> You'ld never know which item you are going to scratch -
> somebody else could have just done myList.removeAt(2).

Absolutely. Multi-user or even just multi-thread use introduces
a host of (annoying) concurrency issues.



Marshall