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From: Luke A. Guest <laguest@archeia.com>
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Subject: Re: Multiple iterators for a type
Date: Sat, 26 May 2018 04:57:45 +0100
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Stephen Leake <> wrote:

> An "iterator" can be anything you want it to be. As Randy pointed out,
> there can be only one that gets special treatment from the compiler, but
> you did not mention that as a requirement.
> 

I’m attempting to implement a Unicode string using UTF-8, so I want the
basic iterator over octets, then the next will iterate over the octets and
generate code points, then another will be graphème clusters.