Container insertion and removal

[Michel Fortin]

On 2010-03-06 14:55:49 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu 
<SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> said:

> Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>> How can softRemove not affect iterating ranges?  What if the range is 
>> positioned on the element removed?
> 
> With GC, you can softRemove things without invalidating iterators.

What exactly is an "invalidated" iterator? Is an iterator that no 
longer points to the container still "valid"? Or is "valid" just 
another word for "memory safe"?

Wouldn't the notion of "detached" iterators/ranges be more useful?

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