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why there is no clone operation for collections in Java ? There must be able to copy the contents of the collections to a new collection and modify the second collection without affecting the first one

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Every collection has a constructor taking another collection as argument:

List<Foo> original = ...;
List<Foo> clone = new ArrayList<>(original);
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