Scala: What is the difference between Traversable and Iterable traits in Scala collections?

Question

I have looked at this question but still don\'t understand the difference between Iterable and Traversable traits. Can someone explain ?

Answer 1

Think of it as the difference between blowing and sucking.

When you have call a Traversables foreach, or its derived methods, it will blow its values into your function one at a time - so it has control over the iteration.

With the Iterator returned by an Iterable though, you suck the values out of it, controlling when to move to the next one yourself.