Predicates totally removed

[Max mtg]

A year ago I have introduced Predicate class into forge, that held a rule to evaluate conditions and could filter, count, calculate aggregates on lists. I was not aware that Google had made a similiar library long ago. I thought of switching to better quality code since then, and the day has come.

Today's commit has removed the custom predicates Forge had had. All the functional programming now relies on guava libraries. They also have predicates, functions and plenty of methods to use them.
Please see the link http://code.google.com/p/guava-librarie ... lExplained and the code in SVN (that has changed) for examples on how to use the current codebase.


One of the most significant differences between old predicates and guava is that the latter's filters do not create a new list. Instead they offer a view for the source collection. Thus, once the source was changed there is no need to obtain a new filtered collection - the old iterable won't get the removed items. It was LimitedDeck class where I saw lists of cards being re-filtered after each change to source list, now it's not needed.