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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: A few questions
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2015 13:16:45 -0600
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"Brad Moore" <bmoore.ada@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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On Thursday, November 12, 2015 at 2:08:54 PM UTC-7, Randy Brukardt wrote:
...
>> > On the other hand, why did Brad include function Iterate?
>>
>> It appears that he wanted tracing of the initialization (as that is all 
>> it
>> does other than making a new iterator that is a copy of the first). It
>> shouldn't be necessary.
>
>It's been a while since I wrote that example, and I'm not entirely sure why 
>I did it
>that way, but to be honest, I think I started with the existing container 
>iterators as
>my starting point example, which all have an Iterate function, and I may 
>have just
>assumed I needed a function which returned an class-wide object.

>If the Prime Number Iterator is useful as an example for others, it would 
>be nice to
>eliminate the Iterate function from the example. It seems also that there 
>should be
>some more tests written to cover the failure cases that we are discovering 
>now. I'd
>be happy to update this ACATS test, if Randy thinks its worthwhile.

I think it would be good to have a separate test using this model (you 
wouldn't need to change the foundation to do it - I think - you'd just not 
call the Iterate function). I don't want to change existing ACATS tests 
unless they are actually wrong (and none of these are).

                              Randy.