Name: krT82822 Date: 10/12/99


I believe that having foreach functionality in the Java Language
would be an excellent addition. This is easy to explain and
understand, so I will be brief.

Here is some sample code of mine:

Iterator paneIter= contentLists.keySet().iterator();

while(paneIter.hasNext()) {

   String paneName= (String) paneIter.next();
   //... loop body, maybe just one line
}

I would like for 'each' functionality so that this can reduce to:

for(String paneName, contentLists.keySet()) {
   //... loop body (no braces necessary if just one line)
}

Basically, what the compiler does is understand that the second
parameter to the for() construct is a Collection. Knowing
what a Collection is, it gets the iterator, and can produce in
a very straight forward way, the bytecode for the loop for the
code I first wrote.

10/12/99 eval1127@eng -- see also # 4183241
(Review ID: 96439)
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