Wouldn't this be nice?

[Mark Mahieu]

And back again:

	char -> Character -> char

or perhaps an Iterable<@NonNull Character> would be more interesting:

	char -> @NonNull Character -> char


Which begs the question - if one were to optimise this, would the  
language spec or the VM be a better place to do so?


Mark



On 12 Nov 2009, at 14:39, Reinier Zwitserloot wrote:

> char to Character, obviously.
>
> --Reinier Zwitserloot
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Ulf Zibis <Ulf.Zibis at gmx.de> wrote:
>
>> Sorry for missing the mailing list by CC:
>>
>>
>> Am 11.11.2009 20:12, Joshua Bloch schrieb:
>>> Ulf,
>>>
>>> Presumably you mean interface CharSequence implements
>>> Iterable<Character>.
>> Yes right
>>>  But I really want to avoid the boxing and unboxing.
>> Can you explain where we have boxing and unboxing here?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ulf
>>
>>>
>>>         Regards,
>>>
>>>         Josh
>>>
>>> On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Ulf Zibis <Ulf.Zibis at gmx.de
>>> <mailto:Ulf.Zibis at gmx.de>> wrote:
>>>
>>>     Am 11.11.2009 17:46, Joshua Bloch schrieb:
>>>
>>>         Paulo,
>>>
>>>         I have a hard time intuiting the semantics by just looking a
>>>         the statement.
>>>          What I'm really sorry that I didn't put into the original
>>>         statement is:
>>>
>>>          for (char c : myString)
>>>
>>>
>>>     Another Idea:
>>>
>>>     interface CharSequence implements Iterable
>>>
>>>     -Ulf
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
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