anantdamle commented on a change in pull request #238: URL: https://github.com/apache/commons-collections/pull/238#discussion_r643575137
########## File path: src/main/java/org/apache/commons/collections4/iterators/PairedIterator.java ########## @@ -0,0 +1,171 @@ +/* + * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more + * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with + * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. + * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0 + * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with + * the License. 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If you point me to a Pair Class, would be open to using an existing pair class. -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org