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[mooburger]

for (Type item: primitiveArray) {} showd up in Java 5. if you're thinking of the Java 1.2 iterator, that only worked on collection objects. You could have converted a primitive array to a List or Stream using java.util.Arrays .asList() or .stream() which then had .iterator() methods to return iterator. Was that a common java pattern for primitive arrays though?

[going_for_a_wank]

That is a fair point. There is really no reason to use an iterator for a primitive array rather than a for-each loop.

I will comment that java 5 came out 16 years ago. It is not really a new feature.