Add methods to Collection.

sdk/lib/collection/collections.dart

 // Copyright (c) 2012, the Dart project authors.  Please see the AUTHORS file
 // for details. All rights reserved. Use of this source code is governed by a
 // BSD-style license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
 
 part of dart.collection;
 
 /**
  * The [Collections] class implements static methods useful when
  * writing a class that implements [Collection] and the [iterator]
  * method.
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   static dynamic reduce(Iterable iterable,
                         dynamic initialValue,
                         dynamic combine(dynamic previousValue, element)) {
     for (final element in iterable) {
       initialValue = combine(initialValue, element);
     }
     return initialValue;
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Simple implementation for [Collection.removeAll].
+   *
+   * This implementation assumes that [Collection.remove] on [collection]
+   * is efficient, which it isn't for, e.g., [List]s.

[floitsch, 2013/01/17 13:36:58]

too much "." and "," and latin.

[Lasse Reichstein Nielsen, 2013/01/18 11:41:48]

Done.

+   */
+  static void removeAll(Collection collection, Iterable elementsToRemove) {
+    for (Object object in elementsToRemove) {
+      collection.remove(object);
+    }
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Simple implemenation for [Collection.retainAll].
+   *
+   * This implementation assumes that [Collecton.retainMatching] on [collection]
+   * is efficient.
+   */
+  static void retainAll(Collection collection, Iterable elementsToRetain) {
+    Set lookup;
+    if (elementsToRetain is Set) {
+      lookup = elementsToRetain;
+    } else {
+      lookup = elementsToRetain.toSet();
+    }
+    collection.retainMatching(lookup.contains)
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Simple implemenation for [Collection.removeMatching].
+   *
+   * This implementation assumes that [Collecton.removeAll] on [collection] is
+   * efficient.
+   */
+  static void removeMatching(Collection collection, bool test(var element)) {
+    List elementsToRemove = [];
+    for (var element in collection) {
+      if (test(element)) elementsToRemove.add(element);
+    }
+    collection.removeAll(elementsToRemove);
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Simple implemenation for [Collection.retainMatching].
+   *
+   * This implementation assumes that [Collecton.removeAll] on [collection] is
+   * efficient.
+   */
+  static void retainMatching(Collection collection, bool test(var element)) {
+    List elementsToRemove = [];
+    for (var element in collection) {
+      if (!test(element)) elementsToRemove.add(element);
+    }
+    collection.removeAll(elementsToRemove);
+  }
   static bool isEmpty(Iterable iterable) {
     return !iterable.iterator.moveNext();
   }
 
   static dynamic first(Iterable iterable) {
     Iterator it = iterable.iterator;
     if (!it.moveNext()) {
       throw new StateError("No elements");
     }
     return it.current;
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    * Returns true if the specified collection contains the specified object
    * reference.
    */
   static _containsRef(Collection c, Object ref) {
     for (var e in c) {
       if (identical(e, ref)) return true;
     }
     return false;
   }
 }