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// Protocol Buffers - Google's data interchange format
// Copyright 2008 Google Inc.  All rights reserved.
// http://github.com/jskeet/dotnet-protobufs/
// Original C++/Java/Python code:
// http://code.google.com/p/protobuf/
//
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using System.Collections.Generic;

namespace Google.ProtocolBuffers.Collections
{
    /// <summary>
    /// A list which has an Add method which accepts an IEnumerable[T].
    /// This allows whole collections to be added easily using collection initializers.
    /// It causes a potential overload confusion if T : IEnumerable[T], but in
    /// practice that won't happen in protocol buffers.
    /// </summary>
    /// <remarks>This is only currently implemented by PopsicleList, and it's likely
    /// to stay that way - hence the name. More genuinely descriptive names are
    /// horribly ugly. (At least, the ones the author could think of...)</remarks>
    /// <typeparam name="T">The element type of the list</typeparam>
    public interface IPopsicleList<T> : IList<T>
    {
        void Add(IEnumerable<T> collection);
    }

    /// <summary>
    /// Used to efficiently cast the elements of enumerations
    /// </summary>
    internal interface ICastArray
    {
        IEnumerable<TItemType> CastArray<TItemType>();
    }
}