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Subject: Re: Generic Package
From: Georg Bauhaus <bauhaus@futureapps.de>
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Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 23:44:04 +0200
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On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 16:16 +0200, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 16:10:47 +0200, Georg Bauhaus wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 14:06 +0200, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> > 
> >> It does. Semantically, table /= a snapshot of. That is.
> > 
> > For Iterate, a snapshot is a table, a collection of tuples.
> 
> Well, for a hammer everything is a collection of nails.

Please. From a user's perspective Iterate is the important
interface. When I call Iterate to apply an operation to
each tuple of a table, an order is established, even though
it does not matter.
 I really don't understand why Iterate should not be able
to produce a positional number for each tuple it produces.