From: Matt Gushee <mgushee@...>
Date: 2002-10-03T14:44:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Can soneone tell me what I'm doing wrong...

On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 02:21:32PM +0900, Bulat Ziganshin wrote:
> 
> use a concept of index :) when we delete element currently indexed by
> iterator, this index will point to next element and when we increment
> that index, we will just skip one element totally
> 
> WDT> Well, I don't know how to explain it easily without using the concept of
> WDT> pointer.  For the expert Ruby programmers, can someone help here?
> 
> >>> > If you ever used C++, then you would have known the issue of deleting an
> >>> > element while you are traversing the container using an iterator.

Well, that's simple enough. I was expecting something more esoteric. So
does this mean that at the implementation level there's really no
difference between

    stuff.each

and

    for (int i = 0; i < stuff.length(); i++) {

?

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