From: Bruce Williams <bruce@...>
Date: 2003-01-23T07:10:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Definition: iterator

On Wednesday 22 January 2003 05:07 pm, Daniel Carrera wrote:
| I sort of know what an iterator is, but not well enough to explain it.
|
| What would be a one-sentence definition of an iterator?

From FOLDOC:

 <programming> An object or routine for accessing items
   from a list, array or stream one at a time.

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