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In article <9tht9a$2j1ni$1@ID-25716.news.dfncis.de>, Nick Roberts says...
>
>My approach to solving the problem of 'safe pointers' is to have the
>'pointers' (I call them 'cursors') inside the list type. This way they can
>be checked by any list operation for validity (and internally updated as
>necessary), and they can be referenced by number (1, 2, 3, etc.) for maximum
>simplicity.

I find that solution slightly inferior, as it only allows one iterator at a
time, whereas the other one allows as many as you want. 

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