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From: Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid>
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Subject: Re: How convert Iterator into Enumeration
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 13:28:13 -0500
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On 11/28/2012 1:22 PM, Eric Sosman wrote:
>[...]
> If you do this sort of thing a lot write yourself a utility
> class implementing Enumeration<T>, with a constructor that
> takes an Iterator<T>.  A companion class wrapping an Iterator<T>
> around an Enumeration<T> is equally easy to write, and might
> also be handy.  (I'm a little surprised that Snoracle doesn't
> provide such wrappers -- or maybe they do, but under names
> that have escaped my notice.)

     Aha!  Thanks to Jim Janney, I've just learned about the
Collections#enumeration(Collection) method.  It's perhaps a
smidgen less general than enumeration(Iterator) would be, but
only a smidgen.

     (And I still don't see an iterator(Enumeration) method
anywhere.  Maybe Santa will bring one ...)

-- 
Eric Sosman
esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid