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Maciej Sobczak schrieb:
> On 21 Sty, 09:59, "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mail...@dmitry-kazakov.de>
> wrote:
> 
>>> Only that it provide uniform ways to traverse
>>> through all containers?
>> Arrays do it already.
> 
> You mean that arrays have the Iterate method? Or cursor-like interface
> with No_Element sentinel? I'm afraid they don't.

In a formal sense, the container types do not have
an iteration interface either,  because Cursor
is its own type...

OTOH, generic algorithms such as Generic_Anonymous_Array_Sort
can be used with plain arrays or Vectors or ...

A message sent recently to the Ada Comments list
suggests a few new (generic) ideas.