From: "Andrew Koenig" <ark@research.att.com>
I wasn't suggesting defining a protocol for every possible iteration view. I was raising the question of whether multi-pass iteration was likely to be a common enough operation that it is worth defining a protocol for it, while leaving the door open to defining protocols for others should it turn out to be desirable to do so.
I think your examples are confusing different beasts, then. Multipass (=copyable in these examples) should be a capability of iterators, just as bidirectional or random-access would be. Breadth-first/depth-first is not a capability of the iterator in that sense, but an implementatoin detail -- from the POV of the iterator's user, there's no way to tell what the traversal order is. -Dave