[H-GEN] Which is better?

[Paul Gearon]

David Seikel wrote:

> Java has it's collections framework, which allows something like that.
> 
> for (Enumeration commands = servletToDo.elements(); commands.hasMoreElements();)
> {
>     String command = (String) commands.nextElement();
>     ...
> }
> 
> An example from my own code (but word wrapped by my email client).

Ooooooh, I haven't seen Enumerations in a while!

You should note that the collections framework now supports "iterators" rather 
than enumerators.  Some collection classes do support enumerators (namely, 
StringTokenizer and Vector... maybe others) but most don't.

The documentation on Enumeration says:

NOTE: The functionality of this interface is duplicated by the Iterator 
interface. In addition, Iterator adds an optional remove operation, and has 
shorter method names. New implementations should consider using Iterator in 
preference to Enumeration.

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