Previously on "Collecting Collections" Performance I was designing in my head, analyzing how to implement each method, visioning dependencies between methods and I stumbled upon size. Very simple to implement. Perhaps so simple that two different implementations popped in my head. The first option was something similar to Javas' with

Previously on "Collecting Collections" Method semantics After gathering a bunch of methods in a table and reading their source or documentation, I had a basic idea for every one of them.I wanted to reduce the amount of necessary concepts to work with a collection. Something like 250 was too

Some time ago I started digging collection APIs in a few languages trying to answer a philosophical question. How were the whole/part relationships represented on programming languages (through collections) and what were the operations that we (as programmers) used on them.What started as a few minutes skimming through