Hi,
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 11:44 AM, Jörn Kottmann<kottm...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On a related note, have you considered using Iterables instead of
>> Iterators? They make the looping constructs much nicer.
>
> Its not possible to use Iterables instead of Itertors because
> that will break backward compatibility of our API.
Yep, the benefit is not big enough to break backwards compatibility.
I was thinking more about internal interfaces and constructs. We
recently upgraded Apache Jackrabbit to Java 5 and there we switched to
Iterables in many internal code paths.
The change from
Iterator<Foo> iterator = ...;
while (iterator.hasNext()) {
Foo foo = iterator.next();
...;
}
to
for (Foo foo : ...) {
...;
}
made many parts of the codebase more readable.
BR,
Jukka Zitting
