for..iterator

[jon80]

Consider the following code snippet:

employee[] staff = new Employee[100];

//assume a procedure that retrieves 100 names from a data source
retrieveEmployees(staff);

//cost cutting time...reduce salaries by 20 percent
for (employee e : staff)
reducesalaryBy20percent(staff);

Does the for loop create a copy of the staff array in order to iterate through each staff member?

:confused:

[JosAH]

Does the for loop create a copy of the staff array in order to iterate through each staff member?

No it doesn't, it iterates over the original array. What is going wrong then? Also show us the definition of your reducesalaryBy20percent( ... ) method; you call it as if it takes an entire array of Employees but I guess it should just take a single Employee ...

kind regards,

Jos

[Fubarable]

CDoes the for loop create a copy of the staff array in order to iterate through each staff member?

The JLS states what the for-each loop does: JLS for-each

I don't see it making a copy of the iterable, but rather it extracts the value from each item in the iterable.