C++ / Why Iterators Got It All Wrong

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d]

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

Well, «C++ iterators» are table pointer abstractions, so you need 
a pair.

An «iterator» would be a possibly heavy object that is used for 
traversing a possibly complex and heterogenous data-structure 
without exposing any notion of size or end a-priori (e.g. before 
it arrives at the end, if there is an end).