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Subject: Re: OO Style with Ada Containers
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Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 13:16:52 +0100
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On Tue, 2007-11-20 at 10:06 +0100, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 12:45:12 -0800 (PST), Maciej Sobczak wrote:

> > Now consider an iterator generating a (samples of) sine wave with
> > given parameters. Infinitely! It plays a sound using attached DAC.
> 
> > There is no container behind. Just a sequence.
> 
> This is a totally wrong analogy with many more things assumed, than just a
> container.

Technically, you need none of the predefined container objects.
Formalistically, you might construe a notion of container capturing
the fact that a generator needs to exist somewhere. But so what.

But what is wrong with just giving the generator an iteration
interface? (I think Matt has dropped a word or two about this.)