Why doesn the Iterator interface extend the Enumeration interface?
Location: http://www.jguru.com/faq/view.jsp?EID=2360 Created: Dec 10, 1999 Modified: 1999-12-10 23:38:24.46 Author: John Zukowski (http://www.jguru.com/guru/viewbio.jsp?EID=7) If the Iterator interface extended the Enumeration interface, the Iterator interface would end up with five methods where two methods just called other methods in the interface. The designers of the framework wanted to get rid of the cumbersome Enumeration method names so had the Iterator interface stand on its own with new shorter method names.
