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From: Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte-dot-net.invalid>
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Subject: Re: How convert Iterator into Enumeration
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On 28/11/2012 19:28, Eric Sosman allegedly wrote:
> 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.

That's been there for a while. :)

Unfortunately, there's no enumeration(Iterable) support. Iterable, being
a somewhat late addition, is overall poorly integrated, which is a pity.
Same thing goes for CharSequence.

-- 
DF.