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From: "Nick Roberts" <nickroberts@adaos.worldonline.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: List container strawman 1.2
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Hooray! My revised proposal (version 5) is on my web site at:

http://www.adaos.ukf.net

"John English" <je@brighton.ac.uk> wrote in message
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> ...
> but I'm less happy about the
> rationale for having a limited number of them inside the list type.
> ...
> you don't end up with the overhead of unused iterators clogging up
> every list you create;

For unbounded lists, you can have up to 255 cursors. They are (able to be)
dynamically allocated (from 'heap').

> IMHO, the iterators should be a separate type so that you can use
> them like any other type (pass them as parameters, etc.);

Are you confusing iterators with 'pointers' (I call them 'cursors')? I'm
going to add a set of iteration packages to my proposal as soon as I can (in
which an iterator will be a separate type).

--
Best wishes,
Nick Roberts