Maybe that post came out with the wrong emphasis.
I'm not trying to say we should prefer external iterators to internal
ones, indeed much of the value of commons-functor comes from replacing
external iteration with internal iteration. It just seems that if you add
a next() method to Generator, th
I think there are a few reasons that generators may be
better than or a compliment to iterators.
They are somewhat easier to write. You literally just
write a loop that calls a function on each iteration. Writing
a generator as an anon inner class is easier since there is
only 1 method to implem
At first blush (and not having any experience actually using Generators
directly) I guess the questionability for me lies in the issue of how
often would someone want to create a Generator that is not an Iterator.
-Mark
Rodney Waldhoff wrote:
As far as I can tell, the role of generator is essen
