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Subject: RE: Proposed change to BC iterator parameters
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"...Ada has such weak support for iterators."
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Will you stop saying that? An iterator is an abstraction. No general =
purpose language is suppose to have "support for iterators". Ada =
provides many building blocks appropriate for constructing iterators. =
The only thing lacking is perhaps anonymous subprograms (e.g. like =
blocks in Smalltalk). But I fear adding that would go against a number =
of the "-ilities".