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Asked: May 17, 20262026-05-17T01:34:04+00:00 2026-05-17T01:34:04+00:00

I wonder why the Collection.addAll() method only accepts other Collection s but not Iterable

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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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    2026-05-17T01:34:05+00:00Added an answer on May 17, 2026 at 1:34 am

    Presumably because the Collection interface was introduced in Java 1.2 whereas Iterable appeared only in 1.5, and changing the interface would break all existing implementations.

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