- tweaked two comments

- added toArray

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/src/library/scala/Iterable.scala b/src/library/scala/Iterable.scala
index 7626c469e7..4319157989 100644
--- a/src/library/scala/Iterable.scala
+++ b/src/library/scala/Iterable.scala
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ import Predef.IllegalArgumentException
 import collection.mutable.{Buffer,ArrayBuffer}
 import compat.StringBuilder
 
-/** This object ...
+/** Various utilities for instances of <a href="Iterable.html">Iterable</a>.
  *
  *  @author  Matthias Zenger
  *  @version 1.1, 04/02/2004
@@ -335,10 +335,21 @@ trait Iterable[+A] {
   }
 
   /**
-   * @return a list with all the elements of this iterable object
+   *  Create a fresh list with all the elements of this iterable object
    */
   def toList: List[A] = elements.toList
 
+
+  /**
+   *  Creates an array with the elements of this iterable,
+   *  in the order the iterable provides them.
+   */
+  def toArray[B >: A]: Array[B] = {
+    val result = new ArrayBuffer[B]
+    result ++ this
+    result.toArray
+  }
+
   /** Returns a string representation of this iterable object. The resulting string
    *  begins with the string <code>start</code> and is finished by the string
    *  <code>end</code>. Inside, the string representations of elements (w.r.t.