Re: ArrayList.toString versus iterating through the ArrayList

On Sat, 19 Apr 2008 09:41:29 GMT, thufir <hawat.thufir@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :

>My understanding is that the toString method for an ArrayList will call 
>the respective toString method for each element of the ArrayList.

the Javadoc for the inherited ArrayList.toString method says:

Returns a string representation of this collection. The string
representation consists of a list of the collection's elements in the
order they are returned by its iterator, enclosed in square brackets
("[]"). Adjacent elements are separated by the characters ", " (comma
and space). Elements are converted to strings as by
String.valueOf(Object).

that is the equivalent of calling the overridden Object.toString
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