Re: List container strawman 1.3

[Jeffrey Carter <jrcarter@acm.org>]

Ted Dennison wrote:
> 
> In article <3C0D8D06.DD4F09F2@acm.org>, Jeffrey Carter says...
> >
> >I thought we'd agreed not to call the type that indicates a position in
> >the list "Iterator". IIRC, you thought "Location" was a better name.
> 
> Part of the logic for that was that we weren't dealing with a full safe
> iterator, but rather with something that represents a certian location within a
> certian associated list. Thus "iterator" was a bit misleading for some. Now it
> isn't.

Yes, it is. An iterator, by definition, is something that iterates.
Given

X : Iterator;

X does not Iterate.

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Jeff Carter
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