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package net.innig.collect;

/**
    Experimental.
    <p>
    The <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/collections.html">Jakarta Commons Collections</a>
    project has <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/collections/api/org/apache/commons/collections/Transformer.html">its own version</a>
    of this class which is more mature.

    @see InnigCollections#map(java.util.Iterator,Mapper)
*/
public interface Mapper<I,O>
    {
    public O map(I o);
    }