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From: "Chad R. Meiners" <crmeiners@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: ASCL a doomed idea?
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 22:40:41 -0500
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Which makes absolutely no difference.  Executable code and states can be
represented with variables.  A passive iterator is a storable iterator state
machine.  These machines do iterate, and so, your assertion is false.

"Jeffrey Carter" <jrcarter@acm.org> wrote in message
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> "Chad R. Meiners" wrote:
> >
> > "Jeffrey Carter" <jeffrey.carter@boeing.com> wrote in message
> > news:3C153926.102B17B1@boeing.com...
> >
> > > By definition: An iterator is something that iterates. Executable code
> > > can iterate. Types and objects cannot.
> >
> > Think back to your computation theory.  Executable code is an object.
>
> Think back to the name of this newsgroup. In Ada, an object is something
> with a subtype attached, such as a variable or constant.
>
> --
> Jeff Carter
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