List是项的有序分组 Set是一个无序的项目分组，不允许重复(通常)

从概念上讲，我们通常将允许重复的无序分组称为Bag，而不允许重复的无序分组称为Set。

这可能不是您想要的答案，但是集合类的JavaDoc实际上非常具有描述性。复制/粘贴:

An ordered collection (also known as a sequence). The user of this interface has precise control over where in the list each element is inserted. The user can access elements by their integer index (position in the list), and search for elements in the list. Unlike sets, lists typically allow duplicate elements. More formally, lists typically allow pairs of elements e1 and e2 such that e1.equals(e2), and they typically allow multiple null elements if they allow null elements at all. It is not inconceivable that someone might wish to implement a list that prohibits duplicates, by throwing runtime exceptions when the user attempts to insert them, but we expect this usage to be rare.

Java中List和Set之间的一些值得注意的区别如下:

1) Java中的List和Set之间的基本区别是允许重复元素。Java中的List允许重复，而Set不允许任何重复。如果在Set中插入duplicate，它将替换旧的值。Java中Set的任何实现都只包含唯一的元素。

2) Another significant difference between List and Set in Java is order. List is an Ordered Collection while Set is an unordered Collection. List maintains insertion order of elements, means any element which is inserted before will go on lower index than any element which is inserted after. Set in Java doesn't maintain any order. Though Set provide another alternative called SortedSet which can store Set elements in specific Sorting order defined by Comparable and Comparator methods of Objects stored in Set.

3) Java中比较流行的List接口实现有ArrayList, Vector和LinkedList。而流行的Set接口实现包括HashSet, TreeSet和LinkedHashSet。

很明显，如果你需要维护插入顺序或对象，你的集合可以包含重复的列表是一种方法。另一方面，如果您的要求是保持唯一的集合，没有任何重复，那么Set是最好的方法。

List是项的有序分组 Set是一个无序的项目分组，不允许重复(通常)

从概念上讲，我们通常将允许重复的无序分组称为Bag，而不允许重复的无序分组称为Set。

这里有一个关于groovy的明确例子。我创建了一个集合和一个列表。 然后我尝试在每个列表中存储20个随机生成的值。生成的值范围为0 ~ 5

s = [] as Set
l = []

max = 5
print "random Numbers :"
20.times{
e = (int)Math.random()*max
s << e
l << e
print "$e, "
}


println "\n"
println "Set : $s "
println "list : $l

结果:

随机数:4,1,4,0,1,2,4,0,0,0,3,4,2,0,4,4,0,4,0,0,1,3,1,3

集合:[4,1,0,2,3]

列表:[4 1 4 0,1,2,4,0,0,3、4、3、2 0 4 0,1,3,1,3)

你可以看到区别在于:

Set不允许重复值。 列表允许重复值。

订购…列表有顺序，集合没有。