Consider the following class:

public class Sequence

{

   private ArrayList values;

   public Sequence() { values = new ArrayList(); }

   public void add(int n) { values.add(n); }

   public String toString() { return values.toString(); } }

Add a method

public Sequence append(Sequence other)

that creates a new sequence, appending this and the other sequence, without modify- ing either sequence.

For example, if a is

1 4 9 16

and b is the sequence

9 7 4 9 11

then the call a.append(b) returns the sequence

1 4 9 16 9 7 4 9 11

without modifying a or b. 

 

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Add a method

public Sequence merge(Sequence other)

to the Sequence class of above exervise that merges two sequences, alternating ele- ments from both sequences. If one sequence is shorter than the other, then alternate as long as you can and then append the remaining elements from the longer sequence. For example,

if a is

1 4 9 16

and b is

9 7 4 9 11

then a.merge(b) returns the sequence

1 9 4 7 9 4 16 9 11

without modifying a or b.