I wonder why the Collection.addAll() method only accepts other Collections but not Iterables. Why is that?
Any similar method to do that for Iterables?
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Presumably because the
Collectioninterface was introduced in Java 1.2 whereasIterableappeared only in 1.5, and changing the interface would break all existing implementations.