> > Btw. my pet-peeve in Java is the lack of Ada-like generics, so that in order to
> > avoid casting like hell as you did above, you have to implement your own
> > iterator class for each time.

> Then you'll be happy to hear they now fixed that (upcoming jdk has generics, I
> think).

> > > Btw. my pet-peeve in Java is the lack of Ada-like generics, so that in order to
> > > avoid casting like hell as you did above, you have to implement your own
> > > iterator class for each time.

> > Then you'll be happy to hear they now fixed that (upcoming jdk has generics, I
> > think).

> I don't think that java gets to count features which are much discussed
> (and even prototyped) but not yet released. Of course I hold Python to
> the same standard.