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fastutil extends the Java Collections Framework by providing type-specific maps, sets, lists, and queues with a small memory footprint and fast access and insertion; it provides also big (64-bit) arrays, sets and lists, sorting algorithms, fast, practical I/O classes for binary and text files, and facilities for memory mapping large files. Note that if you have both this jar and fastutil-core.jar in your dependencies, fastutil-core.jar should be excluded.

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/*
 * Copyright (C) 2002-2023 Sebastiano Vigna
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
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 *
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package it.unimi.dsi.fastutil;

import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.ListIterator;

/** A bidirectional {@link Iterator}.
 *
 * This kind of iterator is essentially a {@link ListIterator} that
 * does not support {@link ListIterator#previousIndex()} and {@link
 * ListIterator#nextIndex()}. It is useful for those maps that can easily
 * provide bidirectional iteration, but provide no index.
 *
 * Note that iterators returned by {@code fastutil} classes are more
 * specific, and support skipping. This class serves the purpose of organising
 * in a cleaner way the relationships between various iterators.
 *
 * @see Iterator
 * @see ListIterator
 */

public interface BidirectionalIterator extends Iterator {

	/** Returns the previous element from the collection.
	 *
	 * @return the previous element from the collection.
	 * @see java.util.ListIterator#previous()
	 */

	K previous();

	/** Returns whether there is a previous element.
	 *
	 * @return whether there is a previous element.
	 * @see java.util.ListIterator#hasPrevious()
	 */

	boolean hasPrevious();
}