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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: GCC 4.0 Ada.Containers Cursor danger.
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 06:32:57 +0100
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"MMM" <terekhov@emc.com> writes:

>>> > An iterator (either passive or active) simply enumerates elements in
>>> > their order as specified by the type of container they're in (either
>>>
>>> Exactly! Note also that the natural name for this is "iterator" not
>>> "cursor".
>>
>> You say "chien", I say "dog".  It's the same.
>>
> Sure it is the same. So why to change? Just to be different?

When the Booch Components used the word _iterator_ it was definitely
something used to deliver the elements in an order (and I for one can
remember users who did rely on an order-of-delivery when it was not at
all guaranteed, to refer up-topic; but I always thought that was
because they had had brain fade by that time ..). The STL, and now the
Ada Containers, regard a pair of _things_ as delimiting a range, and
that is most definitely something not covered by the word _iterator_.

I for one don't think that _iterator_ is at all the 'natural' name for
the concept. I don't think many other Brits would think so either. Of
course, we are in the minority now as regards use of English ...