A true gentleman leaves no puzzle unsolved

[torkell]

Okay, so it turns out that talismancer's post yesterday was filler. The moral balance has swung back!

As tempting as it is to fulfill the entirety of NaBloPoMo with us commenting on each other's posts, I feel like I should actually write something. So in the interests of increasing audience participation, I shall set a Java puzzler.

The puzzler consists of the following class:

import java.util.ArrayList;

public class Foo {
    private ArrayList<Object> barList = new ArrayList<Object>();

    public void fillBarList() {
        for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
            Object o = new Object();
            System.out.println("Adding " + o + " at index " + i);
            barList.add(o);
        }
    }

    public void emptyBarList() {
        for (Object o : barList) {
            System.out.println("Removing " + o);
            barList.remove(o);
        }
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Foo f = new Foo();
        f.fillBarList();
        f.emptyBarList();
    }
}

Without running it (because that would be cheating and you will be mocked for it), what do you think will happen when Foo.main() is called?

Comments

[olego.livejournal.com]

Though I'm allergic to Java, every language should result in undefined behaviour when looping over a changing object. Possible outcomes are: (1) exception, (2) only the odd-numbered elements are removed, or (3) somehow, everything is removed.

I'm leaning towards #1, though. :)

[pteppic.livejournal.com]

Not 100% sure about Java, but in c# you would get an exception for
modifying the collection while iterating.

[talismancer]

It'll fill the bar with 10 objects, then empty them out again.

Except it won't, otherwise you wouldn't have posted it.