Idiom for pairwise iteration through a sorted collection

Question

Is there a Java idiom for pairwise iteration through the elements of a sorted Collection? By that I mean that each iteration has access to one element of the co

Answer 1

Iterator thingerator = coll.iterator();
if (thingerator.hasNext()) {
    Thing thing1 = thingerator.next();
    while (thingerator.hasNext()) {
      final Thing thing2 = thingerator.next();
      doStuffToThings(thing1, thing2);

      thing1 = thing2;
    }
}