Remove deprecated string features.

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;
 
 /**
  * This class provides default implementations for Iterables (including Lists).
  *
  * Once Dart receives Mixins it will be replaced with mixin classes.
@@ skipping 113 matching lines @@
     for (int i = 0; i < length; i++) {
       var element = list[i];
       if (!test(element)) {
         retained.add(element);
       }
       if (length != list.length) {
         throw new ConcurrentModificationError(list);
       }
     }
     if (retained.length == length) return;
+    list.length = retained.length;
     for (int i = 0; i < retained.length; i++) {
       list[i] = retained[i];
     }
-    list.length = retained.length;
   }
 
   /**
    * 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 = [];
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  * The source of the elements may be a [List] or any [Iterable] with
  * efficient [Iterable.length] and [Iterable.elementAt].
  */
 class UnmodifiableListView<E> extends UnmodifiableListBase<E> {
   Iterable<E> _source;
   /** Create an unmodifiable list backed by [source]. */
   UnmodifiableListView(Iterable<E> source) : _source = source;
   int get length => _source.length;
   E operator[](int index) => _source.elementAt(index);
 }