From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,842accb6a7d76669 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-11-05 15:13:13 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newspeer.radix.net!uunet!ash.uu.net!xyzzy!nntp From: Jeffrey Carter Subject: Re: List container strawman 1.1 X-Nntp-Posting-Host: e246420.msc.az.boeing.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <3BE719DB.71E5B39A@boeing.com> Sender: nntp@news.boeing.com (Boeing NNTP News Access) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: The Boeing Company X-Accept-Language: en References: <3BE301D1.4010106@telepath.com> <3BE31DD5.FF96AFE0@san.rr.com> <3BE43E6D.109111F4@acm.org> <3BE591CB.72F76462@san.rr.com> <3BE5BF56.582AD0AB@acm.org> <3BE6D5C3.E5F33DF5@san.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 22:59:39 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en]C-CCK-MCD Boeing Kit (WinNT; U) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:15878 Date: 2001-11-05T22:59:39+00:00 List-Id: Darren New wrote: > > Jeffrey Carter wrote: > > Note that positions are not iterators. They do not iterate. Client code > > may use them for iteration, but that does not make them iterators. > > Yes, but they're *declared* as "Iterator". I know they're not iterators. > That's why my version calls em "Location". :-) They're declared incorrectly in a strawman version as Iterator. We don't have to refer to them by that name; that's why I used "position". We need to get a meaningful name accepted before this makes it past the strawman stage. -- Jeffrey Carter