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Nu Cardboard makes a wish for new methods in one of the core Java classes:

If I could add one thing to Java, it would be to add first() and last() methods to the List interface. I know it's not going to happen, for all kinds of good backward compatibility reasons, but it sure would make some of my code easier to read.

Hmm - if you have a fetish about any Java code ever written at any time (past or present) running on any given JRE, then this is a problem. Of course, under those constraints, progress is well nigh impossible. This goes past "conservative" and straight into "hidebound"...