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[Sean Kelly]

David B. Held wrote:
> Sean Kelly wrote:
>> [...]
>> Sure.  But how much value is there in supporting pointers as 
>> iterators?  Even the C++ community has moved away from this idea, 
>> although the syntax still supports it.
> 
> Actually, I use array-iterators all the time in C++ and it works great. 
>  Lots of people I know do as well.  And being that D is practically a 
> vector language, it would be an Unpardonable Sin for it not to support 
> array-iterators.

Well sure, but do those iterators have to be pointers, or can they be a 
struct which contains a pointer?  The size isn't any different, and 
structs can provide a lot of added value in terms of optional range 
checking and such.  I don't know of a single STL implementation that 
uses raw pointers for vector iterators any more, for example.


Sean