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From: "Ayende Rahien" <Dont@spam.me>
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Subject: Re: Problem trying to implement generics.
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"Tucker Taft" <stt@averstar.com> wrote in message
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> Interestingly enough, the standard Iterator in Java
> uses:
>      while (Iter.hasNext()) {
>          X = Iter.next();
>          ...
>      }
>
> even though Java has functions with side effects (although
> in fact, only with side-effects on by-reference operands,
> since it has no parameter modes at all!).

Why use it like this?
for (;Iter.hasNext(); X = Iter.next() ){
    //do stuff
}

Is much more readable, IMO.