I have to say that I find the enhanced for loop useful as a chocolate teapot. I cannot count how often I refactored an iteration into a for just to redo it afterwards. Some times you want to delete via calling remove on the Iterator, sometimes you need an index, well it quickly gets ugly.

Triggered by http://kawagner.blogspot.com/2006/08/java-enhancements-i-would-like-to-see.html and learning C# I started playing with the idea to wrap Iterable to provide access to an index, remove and filtering (plus paired iteration). Well it became ugly. Java and the generics are bitchy sometimes, have a look at it, maybe you find it useful (I find it insane:-)
enumerator.zip

I don’t think it is finished and I don’t think that I will finish it ever. The reason why I put this is out was just a side-kick in Javaposse #94 where the index issue was raised with the remark that someone might implement it someday - well I already did.

The point why I stopped working on it and I really developped an aversion against this code (now you have to have a look at it) was that I started with Scala; a really nice language that has enough FP to write expressive code, enough OO to fit into today’s development mainstream and integrates into .NET and Java so that existing code can be leveraged. It is statically typed (I had too much hassle with JavaScript that I could ever consider dynamically typed code in larger scale development) that makes it strict enough to have powerful type inference. Of course it has it rough edges and limitations, but it addresses the problems I find hard to tackle with Java reasonably well - there are problems that can be solved more elegantly with Ruby, but I think I still need some more practice with Scala before I give up on them.
PS: I think the index in a loop is not needed in a pure OO-design, but where do you ever find a pure OO design