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  • From: "Christian Vest Hansen" <karmazilla AT gmail.com>
  • To: "Elliotte Harold" <elharo AT metalab.unc.edu>
  • Cc: xom-interest AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [XOM-interest] Iterable Elements
  • Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 20:24:30 +0200

Is there anything particular you're waiting for, before you begin to
take advantage of Java 5?

On 4/3/06, Elliotte Harold <elharo AT metalab.unc.edu> wrote:
> Cormac Blackwell wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I was wondering if it would be possible to make the Elements class
> implement
> > Iterable<Element>. I saw in the archives that you don't want to make
> > Elements implement List as it would break backward compatibility (and
> > wouldn't bring that much benefit). I think that implementing Iterable
> would
> > be very simple and shouldn't cause any compatiblity problems but would
> make
> > Java 5 code which iterates over Elements a lot nicer as the for-each
> syntax
> > could be used.
> >
>
> I don't intend to introduce any dependencies on Java 5 this year.
>
> --
> Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo AT metalab.unc.edu
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