The Java for-each idiom can only be applied to arrays or objects of type *Iterable. This idiom is implicit as it truly backed by an Iterator. The Iterator is programmed by the programmer and often uses an integer index or a node (depending on the data structure) to keep track of its position. On paper it is slower than a regular for-loop, a least for "linear" structures like arrays and Lists but it provides greater abstraction.
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