Re: Usage of Interfaces with Ada 95

[Matthew Heaney <matthewjheaney@earthlink.net>]

Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org> writes:

> And so do Booch Component iterators, which are abstract, and which of
> course are much more like what all English-speaking programmers bar
> those who also speak STL understand by Iterator than the STL ones
> which Charles has adopted. I just have to get that dig in. And there
> are some on the ARG who have similar views. We shall have to see how
> it goes! Personally I have no problem at all with what the STL does,
> just some of the names it's adopted for the concepts ..

I don't know why you'd think this.  I didn't make this up.  Read the
chapter titled Iterator in the design patterns book by Gamma et al.  The
English-speaking world (and the German-speaking world too, apparently)
has settled on the terms "container" and "iterator."  And "factory
method."  And "visitor."  And whatever.  So stop fighting it and read
Gamma!