In article <3B19BEA2.796B6CAD@yahoo.com>, Dietmar Kuehl says...

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> The other equally important aspect is that there is no question
> how sequences are passed around: They are passed around as iterator
> pairs, not as some container with a type
> unusable at the other end anyway...

Unfortunately, that's not true. Sometimes a sequence is passed as
a (std::) pair of iterators, sometimes as an iterator and an iterator.
Consider writing a function that returns a sequence, and passing that
sequence to an STL algorithm.

std::for_each ( get_sequence() ... ?

While I diagree with the notion that algorithms should operate on
containers, I  do agree with the notion that they should work on
sequence _objects_. Making the deliberate choice that a function
returns a single object leaves us with no other simple options.

Regards
Michiel Salters

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Michiel Salters
Consultant Technical Software Engineering
CMG Trade, Transport & Industry
Michiel.Salters@cmg.nl

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