PROPOSAL: Enhanced for each loop iteration control

[Joseph D. Darcy]

PS Sun bug 6463989 "(coll) Provide Iterable utility methods and 
light-weight Iterable implementations" requests support for some helper 
methods operating on Iterable's that could be used to perform of the 
operations in question.

-Joe

Reinier Zwitserloot wrote:
> Ah, that's my mistake. In that case, I know this isn't a democracy,  
> but, for what it's worth, I'll toss my hat into the ring for the  
> original 3-way colon separated proposal:
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> for ( String foo : someStringList : anyName ) {
> }
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> where anyName's type becomes a class created for java 1.7, which  
> includes index(), isFirst(), remove(), and other useful utilities, all  
> based off of the iterator. I believe Stephen Colebourne made a formal  
> proposal for this one.
>
>
>   --Reinier Zwitserloot
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> On May 6, 2009, at 21:06, Joe Darcy wrote:
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>> On 05/06/09 05:38 AM, Stephen Colebourne wrote:
>>     
>>> 2009/5/6 Reinier Zwitserloot <reinier at zwitserloot.com>:
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>>>       
>>>> the original 3-way colon-separated for proposal that was not even
>>>> shortlisted by Joe Darcy. Why are we talking about this again?
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> The shortlist occurred before the end of Coin's submission period.
>>> IIRC, this proposal was added after that shortlist was published. I
>>> suspect that Joe is due to publish a more final shortlist soon.
>>>
>>> Stephen
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>> Yes, I'm busy working on the short list and other coin matters :-)
>>
>> -Joe
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