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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: Proposed change to BC iterator parameters
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 11:05:48 +0100
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Robert A Duff wrote:

> I'm still pushing for downward closures to be added to the language,
> which would add at least a minimal amount of support for iterators,
> and greatly simplify this and other data-structure proposals.

Wouldn't subroutine types do the trick? I wonder why Ada does not have them.

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