11.4. Lists
Lists are collections that maintain their elements in order, and can contain duplicates. The elements in a list are ordered. Each element, therefore, has a position in the list. A zero-based index can be used to access the element at the position designated by the index value. The position of an element can change as elements are inserted or deleted from the list.
In addition to the operations inherited from the Collection interface, the List interface also defines operations that work specifically on lists: position-based access of the list elements, searching in a list, creation of customized iterators, and operations on parts of a list (called open range-view operations). This additional functionality is provided by the following ...
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