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From: Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@nbi.dk>
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Subject: Re: List container strawman 1.2
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 17:45:34 +0100
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Ted: Dennison wrote:

> In article <3BED7AFD.737C2AE9@nbi.dk>, Jacob Sparre Andersen says...

> >Isn't that only if the "index" is external to the list type?
> 
> I'm not sure what you think the alternative would be. Perhaps each list gets one
> and only one active iterator, whose current value is somehow a facet of the list
> itself?

Something like that. Not necessarily only one though. That
would also help making sure that the iterator used actually
matches the list.

Jacob (who is a physicist, not a software engineer)
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