[XOM-interest] Let Elements implement java.lang.Iterable

Elliotte Harold elharo at metalab.unc.edu
Mon Mar 10 23:36:36 EDT 2008


You know, I was about to say "Not going to happen as long as Java allows 
type-erasure", but now that I think about it for 30 seconds, does that 
matter? I could expose Iterable<Node> without actually compromising 
XOM's type-safety. What do people think?

I'm still not convinced this is a good idea. For one thing I expect 
people would be surprised by just what an Element iterated over, no 
matter what I picked.

Also it would tie XOM to Java 5, and I'm not quite ready to do that yet. 
  If I do this it would probably be in 1.3.

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