C++ / Why Iterators Got It All Wrong

[jmh530 via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 4 September 2017 at 04:29:36 UTC, Ilya wrote:
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> Maybe I should call it cursors or generic pointers instead of 
> iterators.

dcollections uses a cursor approach that seems different from 
yours
https://github.com/schveiguy/dcollections/blob/master/concepts.txt

Maybe generic pointers makes more sense? Unless I'm mistaken, mir 
iterators are more like pointers with specific operations defined 
for how they are incremented, assigned, etc.

I had been a little confused by the name iterators because I 
don't see any functions in mir that use begin/end. But I don't 
know if that's more about C++'s implementation of iterators or 
more core to the concept.